The Crooked Way Through

I bid my childhood home goodbye with a paper corsage.

Artist Amanda Smith tells intimate stories in thread, wool and canvas. Her textural landscapes are formed from the sediment of memory, and the fallout of current events.

It's one thing to get an idea for a business and think,wait ... this is a great idea. And another thing entirely to spend down your savings trying to make it real. Launching a business is a scary proposition. Overwhelmed by tech-ignorance, besieged by doubt, and escalating credit card debt, RokoPack founder, Roanne Kolvenbach finds inspiration from her celebrity crush, DJ D-Nice.

 

A profile of painter Joanne Onorato Tschida by Melanie Curran.

She remembers meals fondly. There was zeppole and laughter. Everything happened at the table. The extended Italian family came together in Astoria, Queens and Joanne Onorato has painted all of them.

Guest blogger, Pune Dracker, writes beautifully about love, loss, and hope through the lens of 76 used lottery tickets.

My youngest child is leaving for college in the fall, and then (sigh…) after 2 decades, that will be that. Suddenly, I'll be an empty nester. What I need now is an amazing 3rd act. A real showstopper ...