When I was living in Kazakhstan a few years ago, my generous friends Penny, Christina, and Catalina paid for me to join them in taking acrylics classes. The wonderful Gaukhar Iskakova was our teacher, and this was my favorite project: a portrait of my Grandma Char.
I’ve just finished the altered book I started seven years ago, tearing all the boring parts from an old college writing textbook, and adding in collage and color. God’s Grandeur is a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a Jesuit priest in Britain’s Victorian era. Hopkins was known for heavily twisted-together poems of…
I’ve been attending informal painting classes at the university for about twelve weeks now. It’s been a great opportunity to relax and get to know some of the women living on campus, many of whom are expat wives. Oh yes. I think this may be my career goal. We…