Reflections on a life of medicine and art. Sunday, August 21, 2011. This blog is now closed to new postings. To all the people who visited and left comments, I leave a big Thank You! I will continue to post my work from my new home in NY State, and you can find it HERE. Tuesday, December 14, 2010. Tuesday, January 26, 2010. How to paint REALLY loose. Thursday, December 31, 2009.

Confessions of a Recovering Couch Potato. How to get back in shape when you are getting older every day. Thursday, December 27, 2012. Not Wind nor Rain nor. Christmas dinner will keep me from my training regimen for the Seattle Rock and Roll Half Marathon in June 2013. Wellto be perfectly honest I did take 3 weeks off from training for various less than adequate reasons, but I am back on track now. Now I need to get my diet in check and I should be in shape in plenty of time for June 2nd.

The Travels and Travails of a Wire Fox Terrier and his nemesis Teka Toy, the JRT. Our good pal Fred, the Bichon King. Invited me and Teka to be the PREMIER. Interviewees in his new project on his blog. Remember he has a lot of females depending on him! On a part time basis.

Saturday, November 12, 2016. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr. And make no mistake, to me he truly is an Awful Man. But folks, unless I move to another country and renounce my U. citizenship, the Awful Man is going to be my. There are countless essays, written by people far more qualified than I am, which attempt to explain the social science and politics of how and why this happened.

I create images that I find pleasing to my eyes and satisfying to my soul. I feel unencumbered by rules of the trade, and freely move from one medium to the next, often on a whim. It is not unusual for me to have 3-4 pieces of works in progress, each of a different medium.

A blog about anything and everything related to art, cool people, places, events, and the heightened reality that is my life. Monday, February 3, 2014. In actuality, a tombolo is a piece of land that connects a sandbar with the mainland.

The Fearless Painter - Blog is the forum for all information concerning the art of Elise Beattie. Monday, August 3, 2015. What is an artist to do on a hot summer day? It is 96 degrees here in sunny Kentucky. Instead of suffering and lugging my heavy easel, brushes and assorted other art supplies around with me. Grumpy fearless artist on a hot summer day. I have always enjoyed creating paintings of boats.

An accounting of our family journey toward opening The School of Rock in Oak Park, IL. Tuesday, April 24, 2012. You announce your good intentions, tell all of your friends, bore everyone with the details and then fall off the wagon.

Wednesday, January 4, 2017. THE MOTHER OF ALL SANDWICHES. Once more food is providing me an opportunity to revisit an experience from my past. A slice of her bread easily measured at least 6-7 inches in all directio. Ns, large enough for one sandwich to be a complete meal. There were no plastic baggies then.