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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 4

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Mary Beth Frezon

Under it, last week’s • still life of three garlic bulbs • sprouting on a plate. Continue reading →

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Gathering encouragement and inspiration

Posted on February 10, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

We all need some encouragement and ideas on how to proceed… so when people, artists you admire, talk about their work and lives, take a moment and listen. And like Ted Kooser says – throw a lot of horseshoes. Continue reading →

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Using Technology to Communicate and Connect

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

One of the best things to come out of the pandemic was the embracing of things like Zoom, YouTube, Facebook live etc for communicating. We got to be live with people far away and spread out and sometimes who we might never had had the chance to spend time with. Some community grew up around that. Places like museums and bookshops that embraced online gatherings kept the interest of their followers and gathered new ones. During the early months of covid I had a daily and weekly schedule of these which really helped a lot. Continue reading →

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Do You Hobby?

Posted on January 20, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

Had a doctor appointment today and the paper-paperwork was mostly a repeat of the fill-this-out-every-time-you-have-an-appointment-digital history except it asked about work history AND

“Do you have any hobbies?”

Now, this was looking for potentially health-threatening exposures, I get it, but I am rather put off by lumping my painting/printing/etc into something called “hobbies”, so I put it down under work stuff – Artist (painting/printing/fiber). Then the doc and I had a chat about that – what kind, no solvents, etc, etc.

It does have me wondering though, “do you have any hobbies?”
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Charles Simic, 1938-2023

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

When you read a nice poem, somebody else’s poem, you become attuned to the words on the page. The language seems so rich, so beautiful, imagination making connections. You do need the reader as a collaborator. There could be other … Continue reading →

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