"An empty mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." -Plutarch

"I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured dog that lives." -Wm. Shakespeare in Two Gentlemen of Verona

Every year in the U.S., 625 people are struck by lightning.

The tentacles of the giant Arctic jelly fish can reach 120 feet in length.

Illustration for the poem, "Bug Games," by Jane Yolen

"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." -William Butler Yeats

"The only certainty is that nothing is certain." -Pliny the Elder

"powerlessness and silence go together" -Margaret Atwood

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." -Thich Nhat Hanh

illustration for the text: "A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us" -Kafka

tattoo design for myself

Metanoia Poster Project

illustration for the text: "In spite of a sluggish economy, U.S. wine consumption registered its 14th consecutive annual gain in 2007, as Americans drank more wine than Italians for the first time ever and now trail only the French in total wine consumed." -Wine Spectator

illustration for the text: "A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over." -University of Texas School of Public Health, "Fun Food Facts"

"nothing measurable matters"

illustration for the quote "nothing measurable matters" from e.e. cummings
colored pencil

acrylic painting (Panama City Beach)
16 x 20

acrylic painting
9 x 12

mixed media: gouache, watercolor, and colored pencil
11 x 14

Oil Pastels:

12 x 18, oil pastels

12 x 18, oil pastels

12 x 16, oil pastels

12 x 16, oil pastels

Oil Paintings:

watercolors: