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...

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...

Lately, I've spent most weekends working on my art journaling, a practice which began for me by watching several Laly Mille videos last...

All through the winter, as weather permitted (which it usually did here at 1,300 feet in the northern California foothills), I worked in...

I have a pretty rigid schedule of animal chores first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Everyone – my dog, two cats, two...

Lately, I've been giving a lot of thought to imagination, inspiration, and creativity. A reaction I often get to my writing or visual art...

This little painting is sitting on an easel on my hall table and I pass it several times each day. I find it so cheerful - the subject...

Although I continued to draw in my sketchbook this week, the highlight for me came today when I added color to my graphite "formal"...

I've finished my section on squirrels. I chose Eurasian red squirrels since there characters will live at Milkweed Manor which is...