Visible Woman

When you embark on some part of your life experience (marriage, moving, new job, illness, vacation) you have expectations from past frames o...

Normally I have a real good idea who I am and how I am feeding my own selfish desires. The last three months have been trying in this regard...

This is my dad around Thanksgiving 2002. He was getting ready to go on a trip to Germany with a friend. He'd gotten over the mental and ...

In some ways the road trip we took, lasting a couple of days shy of two weeks and covering about 4500 miles, was essentially pointless. We h...

I like abstract art. I like collage. I like pieces that use letters, words, portions of words, torn paper. I like this piece. Only...it...

Sometimes the answer to all your dilemmas is right there. In front of your face. Sometimes the answer is as simple as this: do your own thin...

No, you aren't getting off that easily. I'm going to keep hammering on these ideas until I bore myself silly. Which may be before yo...

Today's picture (taken over on W. Sixth a couple of days ago) is not an all-time favorite. But it does represent a couple of the topics ...

This whole intellectual property thing is interesting, isn't it? (And, really, don't sue me. Please. I can't stand the paper was...

I've been silent in this forum for a while. Sure I've been tweeting along and commenting on facebook things and firing a picture a d...

Sometimes you figure out something and it is, after all, really simple. In my case the revelation was that if you put people together and th...

A couple of weeks ago I went to a local Austin event that is part of a larger international movement. Called Pecha Kucha it's a gatheri...

I snapped this picture on a beautiful day in December when the temperatures didn't seem as threatening as they do today at the Gables Ap...

I wanted to do something else for a couple of hours this morning. My dad wanted me to get yet another prescription out of a doctor. For cons...

If only shop window reflections really were art and a reasonable (and financially lucrative) avocation for a sixty-something lady. If only m...

I used to love leaning into a six-foot-long tilted board lighted garishly and covered with lots of lights and rubber bumpers and roll overs ...

I am sitting here with a cup of coffee, typing on my blue tooth keyboard on my iMac (a physically pretty computer that hasn't lived up t...

When someone is ill, people pray, send good thoughts, send cards and letters, visit, call, bring food. bring plants and flowers and other pr...

My dad had some news about his health issues today. But it wasn't the first, or even the second, thing that he talked about when I calle...

"Hullo!" My dad said strongly. "How are you this morning?" I asked. "Better. I haven't got my paper, but it...