by Keddy Ann Outlaw | Crafts & Thread Arts
Rock, Shell, Bead and Brick – Easy to Make, Free Gifts I needed a little break from collage so I picked up my pliers and wire and started wrapping rocks. Call them tchotkes, doodads, fetishes, what have you, I don’t care — I’m on a tear....
by Keddy Ann Outlaw | Art & Entertainment, Written Word
Books: Love Saves the Day by Gwen Cooper Major meow-wow! Within a few pages, I knew Gwen Cooper had done the impossible — made me believe I was hearing the authentic interior monologue of Prudence, the rescued cat who is the major star of this novel. But not to...
by Keddy Ann Outlaw | Crafts & Thread Arts, Visual Art
At a meeting of my small Artist’s Way group last Sunday, we talked about why we value making art, be they stories, painted chairs or collages. One person said she had discovered that she likes herself when she is caught up in writing a story, laughing at her...
by Keddy Ann Outlaw | Mind & Body, Travel & Adventure
What do we learn when we travel? I’ve heard it said that we travel to to strange places only to learn it is we who are the stranger. Don’t we tend to see ourselves more sharply against unfamiliar backdrops? I think so. There are several truths about travel...
by Keddy Ann Outlaw | Art & Entertainment, Written Word
I just finished A Good Hard Look (Penguin, 2011) by Ann Napolitano. Perhaps you’ve heard of it, since there has been a lot of buzz about a book daring to introduce writer Flannery O’Connor as a fictional character. But actually she is not on stage in this...
