Kaaren Poole

I suppose I’ve done about a dozen series over the years. The largest was a series of thirty 6”x6” pieces which were drawing/collage...

Last night I returned to a writing project I’d abandoned over a year ago. The abandonment wasn’t a problem. It was just an extra project...

My second Milkweed Manor book, Dark Days at Milkweed Manor, despite its title, has some bright spots, and the three frogs’ of Three Frogs...

Regardless of how very much I enjoy working in my art journals, they present one special problem that I have trouble dealing with, and...

All of us creatives are probably familiar with “Imposter Syndrome.” It is, apparently, a way too common affliction and, what’s worse,...

To understate it, the past seven months have been some of the most difficult in my life, which has been 76 years so far, so there’s a lot...

I’ve been creating mixed media art journal pages for about a year and a half now. It’s something I never thought I’d be interested in,...

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...

Isn't she beautiful? The first time I noticed her hanging about was three to four weeks ago. She wasn't terrified of me, like a feral cat...

It's been four or five years, at least, since I've heard coyotes on a regular basis. I'd sleep with the window open and eagerly...

My art journal spread from this past weekend presented me with quite a challenge, but, amidst all the angst, I noticed a pattern of...