Visual Arts

Sock It To Me: Design a sock and win some cash

02.24.2012

I’m always looking for a pair of out-there shoes or socks to jazz up my outfits.

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Wednesday Writers Workshop: Writing Practice with Photography

02.22.2012

Have the aliens landed?  Is this a strange, deformed child appearing in our midst?   Or is she some mutant species, like us and yet not? Here is another view, taken on that same evening when she was first sighted. Is that evil in her eyes? Are those holes even her eyes?  What can we [...]

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Wordless Wednesday Writers Workshop

11.16.2011

I’ll post my response tomorrow; send me yours at jane(at)midlifebloggers(dot)com  

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Calling It Quits: the making of a movie

09.07.2010

I now had a character, that’s me. I had a premise, the search for happiness. And I had a character arc, unhappy to happy (or lets call a sense of well being). In short, I had my film. And I was off — with the enthusiasm of a kid.

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The Creative Process Revealed: The Conclusion

06.14.2010

If you caught my first posting about my inspiration for this project, you’ll see from the pictures that I made some changes along the way.

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The Creative Process Revealed

06.01.2010

I’ve been gathering my thoughts for a new project. The ideas started coming together after I started playing with what I call collage samplers…

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Playing with iPhone Photo Apps

04.02.2010

If  you can remember–I sorta do–I used to love taking photos.  Why did I stop?  For one, my camera is sooo ollllld and infirm that it’s no longer fun.  And I guess my creative wherewithal was going toward MidLifeBloggers.  Or maybe I just developed a squint in my viewfinder eye.  Whatever, I’m lovvvvving playing with [...]

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Of Marriage, Life, Art and Loss

11.29.2009

Regardless of the causes, I am dealing with an enormous loss, and the agony of watching him erase himself. It is the antithesis of creating. It is chaos as well as inertia.

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Dialectic: Poetry, Philosophy, Collage

11.16.2009

The walls of human understanding have various purposes, textures, designs. But their intent is often to keep something…safe from challenge and on-going discovery of the truth of inherent polarity.

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MidLifeBloggers.com: Our Mission Statement

07.05.2009

MidLifeBloggers is more of a boutique, a salon of sorts, offering well-written, thoughtful, provocative posts (be they prose, poetry, or visual arts) on each and every issue–big and small, real and imagined–that any one of us is experiencing as we are wending our way through this period in our lives.

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