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Food Photography with Recipe Links (Spring 2022)
By Polly Castor on May 25, 2022Read moreHosting anyone on Memorial Day Weekend? This post should give you some ideas of what you can serve.
40There is One Dance You’ll Do Alone (New Textural Abstract Painting in Pastel)
By Polly Castor on May 24, 2022Read moreThis is a highly textural pastel. It is 18″x24″ and the title is lifted from the Jackson Browne...
Ain’t Burned All the Bright (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on May 23, 2022Read moreThis book is a powerful rendition of what it felt like to be black in America during the pandemic...
Guardian of the Precious Treasure (quote by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo)
By Polly Castor on May 22, 2022Read moreWe are the guardian of the precious treasure that is our own mind.
Advice on How to Apologize
By Polly Castor on May 21, 2022Read moreIf what you said or did would have bothered you if it was said or done to you, than...
Life is a Collage (New Poem by Polly Castor with Artwork)
By Polly Castor on May 20, 2022Read moreYour scraps define you, so take care to use only the shards you like, but more it is how...
Biannual Plea for Blog Donations
By Polly Castor on May 19, 2022Read moreThank you again for supporting this site financially, prayerfully, and by sharing it with your family and friends.
Shakshuka with Feta (Recipe)
By Polly Castor on May 18, 2022Read moreThis version of shakshuka from the New York Times is easier than my more authentic version posted in 2013.
Three New Artist Journal Pages
By Polly Castor on May 17, 2022Read moreI highly recommend keeping an artist journal, It as a wonderful processing tool, and is so very sanity...
Dig (Poem by Alfred K. LaMotte)
By Polly Castor on May 16, 2022Read moreYou need to take a journey into the back yard.
Matrix (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on May 15, 2022Read moreDid I love it? No. Will I long remember it? Probably. Do I wish I could write that well?...
Reflective Drawing (Sketchbook Ideas #4)
By Polly Castor on May 14, 2022Read moreThe exercise celebrates balance as closely as you can achieve it.