Oct 31, 2016
The sun was shining into Sabine’s bedroom window, it’s gathering warmth woke Jennifer. A film of sweat had collected on her upper lip and unconsciously she wiped it off with her fingers. She turned over and saw Sabine sleeping next to her. Everything in the past ten...
Oct 25, 2016
The first night, at the end of our day in New York City, we stayed at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. My mother and her friend Peg took my younger sister, Nancy, and I to the 1964 Worlds Fair to show us the future. A lavish flower arrangement greeted us on the marble...
Oct 23, 2016
Four finished sinks in lightly draped plastic sat on a wire rack so all would dry to equal hardness. Jennifer cleaned up her studio cubicle and pondered how she would decorate the insides…incised or relief, as she wiped her counter and washed her tools. The morning...
Oct 16, 2016
June brought the beginning of finals and critiques for the students of Alfred University and the associated New York State College of Ceramics. Studios were flying with clay scraps, glaze conundrums, and creative quandaries. Study groups coagulated. In the kiln room...
Oct 9, 2016
Walking up 14th Street, the 1930’s jazz was barely audible. Standing in front of the gray, octagonal house, its melody was distinctive, Django Rienhardt. Old flagstones led to the eight-sided, three storied, filigreed Victorian, built in the 1850’s, by an architect of...
Oct 2, 2016
SHOPPING IN KOTZEBUE After you pass the Arctic Circle on the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska, Kotzebue is the biggest town in which to stock up until Barrow at the top of the world. Originally, it was a summer village for Native Alaskans...
