Kaaren Poole

Just wanted to give a shout-out to a marvelous website, Headspace. I joined about five weeks ago when I was overwhelmed and too...

One of the first things I tackled when preparing for my up-coming cross-country move was to go through my stacks of magazines, mining...

There's that old saying "nothing ventured, nothing gained." Sounds so simple - simple to say and simple to do. But sometimes it's not....

This little rose bush has a big lesson to teach. Summer before last, every time I visited my garden I marveled at the beauty of this rose...

Meet Edman, a.k.a. Eddi I met him the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport last Monday. I was travelling from California to North Carolina to...

Last week I wrote about my first experiment with repeat patterns. After I finished, I could imagine other approaches I wanted to try, and...

For several years now I've known the basics about creating a pattern that could repeat across a surface, but I'd never tried it until...

Here's my dear little Blue Belle, the stray cat whom I've adopted. In this picture, I'm feeding her just outside her safe space -...

I've been feeding and trying to befriend a stray cat lately, and part of the effort has involved buying a brand of dry cat food to tempt...

It was a dark and stormy night. Really. Thirst woke me, so I gathered my resolve to leave the comfy warmth of the bed and venture to the...