The Mother Ranch Blog

These past few weeks I've been in crisis mode on more than one front. Then my brother Michael came to visit and took some of the weight off. I realized that when I'm in crisis mode, I can no longer th...

 This week my creativity is wrapped up in the art, not the words. This is my newest work!

16x40" acrylic on canvas

Here are a few of the progression:

That splatter was fun! I was covered in pai...

It's done! 22x28" which is the biggest canvas I've painted so far. I'm kinda thrilled with it!

And I promised that I would share a few of the stages a painting like this goes through, aka "the ugly...

I can't believe it's been 10 years since she came home—September 12th, 2012! So cool to see how her grey coat evolves over time!

I went out to Castle Rock, CO to see her after seeing this photo in Cr...

Happy Saturday friends!

Wow, I got a slew of emails from you guys this week, apparently a lot of you are also “neurodiverse!” Did you know that between 30-40% of the population are neurodiverse? Hone...

My birthday was this past week! My Aunt Katy had a birthday dinner at her house with favorite foods and German Chocolate cake! Yum. ManChild remembered the canvases that I was looking at the week befo...

Happy Saturday morning!

In my Craft Your Talk class we are telling little short stories and I thought I would record them to practice getting in front of a camera to speak. Here are the ones I've don...

Oooooo boy. I am "reading" (listening to the author read it through Audible actually) a book that is really speaking to me right now. It's going to be one of those that I will buy and keep in my libra...

Oh. My. Gawd. I have a computer bug. Literally. Look!

This is one of the teeny tiny ants that fall into my shirt and bite me. Except this one was on my computer. I went to squish it and hit...glass...

I was taking Lucy for her morning walk in the forest on Tuesday when she stopped abruptly and carefully reached out her nose to smell something while her entire body was poised to leap away. I peeked ...