Category: Diva Dispatch

  • One Good Thing

    One Good Thing

    When I began my career in higher education, I knew I needed to buy academic regalia – renting that stuff very quickly becomes a terrible economic decision. Regalia is a whole thing in education – your rig announces to those who can read such things your degree, your institution, and your area of expertise. Master’s…

  • One Good Thing

    One Good Thing

    As you know, I’ve taken a Big Step forward into real gardening by figuring out what was beyond me and making arrangements with my very own “Garden Gal,” who is doing amazing work in getting the vague ideas in my head on to paper and working with my budget and skill level to begin what…

  • 100 Days – Update 7!

    100 Days – Update 7!

    Still at it! I’m now in the final month of the 100 Day Art Project and I’m going strong! I am noticing some interesting things – on days where I feel like I “have” to paint (these days usually follow a very full workday), I tend to get “tight,” meaning that I’m literally tense. For…