• DAY OF THE DEAD ALTARS

    As All Saints’ Day and All Hallows Eve approached, our art class moved on from the harvest and Halloween themes of the Great Pumpkin. Inspired by the Mexican tradition of the Dia de Los Muertos altars to the honored ancestors, we made frames for photo collages of our own loved ones of blessed memory. The…


  • Rabbit! Rabbit! Welcome to November

    My parents would often say, “Time flies when you’re having fun.” If this is so, I’ve had a one whale of a time in 2023. I don’t know where the time has gone, for I’d swear I just woke up in the bright new year of 2023, and now this year has grown a beard…


  • Day of the Dead Altars

    Some things I take for granted, since I had the great privilege of knowing my great grandmother in her last years. I knew all but one of my grandparents, since my daddy’s father died when I was only a year old. Even my daughter knew both her Nana and all four of her grandparents. Growing…