“… I am going to let this Remembrance Snippet Roll unfold slowly. There will be no rushing it. I will share little pieces of it here as it grows over on my YouTube channel ~ the things I find, the things I stitch, the memories that surface and perhaps some of the stories that sit quietly behind them. A weekly remembrance. One little snippet at a time. Come join me

A broken piece of metal found upon ancestors land. Once discarded, weathered by rain, sun, and time, it carried no obvious value. Yet as I held it in my hands, I wondered what stories the land still remembered. And so after bringing it home, I have prepped it and started painting a wagon wheel upon its rusted surface, not as a picture of the past, but as a symbol of the lives that turned upon this country. This piece of metal, rubbish to some has brought thought and memory of

I want to offer you a quiet invitation….

This painting feels like a quiet memory made visible. And it speaks very loudly in quiet whispers, where my art is wandering these days. Life is often made up of ordinary mornings, familiar routines, and small moments that rarely make it into history books, yet become the places where love quietly grows. And so through this piece “The Chooks Are Out” another branch of my family tree can be seen. Again the people and their place of residence are not marked by grand events or f

This week’s episode comes through a name that has quietly stitched itself back into my daily breath. That name is Mary Martha. As I continue working on my legacy quilt and piecing fabric together in the studio, I find myself thinking often about the structure of Mary’s life not simply the events of it, but the strength it required to live it. Mary was an “on strength” wife and mother living within the demands and restrictions of military life. Her days would have been shaped