DonnaBarr

Jim are not happy. Jim's home! Yesterday we discovered Jim had scraped an inch-long trench in the end of his tail, possibly even broken it.  We thought he'd gotten his tail caught in the door, but now we're not sure. Anyway, he's home, with stitches in his tail.   The vet's assistant, Naomi, said she came THIS close to putting a pink ribbon bow on the tail.  So maybe he'd better think next time.   Vet bill, of course, so am trolling for commissions.  Nice black and white drawings (including... Read Full Story

Who knew?  Facebook got us back together after more than 30 years. Drove 8 hours round trip yesterday to meet with a German Professor I hadn't seen since 1978. Dagmar and Mohsin in the Streamliner diner. She has hardly changed, and she has netted herself a handsome, funny Egyptian husband, named Mohsin. See if I'm wrong.  That fedora is from Chicago, where else? We had a hugely fun time in the town of Bainbridge, on Bainbridge Island, in the Puget Sound. Me and Dagmar on the Bainbridge... Read Full Story

There's the friend whose brother cleaned out the burial fund, and used their father's body to run the HOV lane to a cheap cremation.   And my college professor who worked with a woman who came over with her husband with the von Braun gang, and years later settled in Illinois.  There, the couple had problems with a deer eating the roses.  They applied for a permit to shoot the deer.  The state gave them one.  They were allowed to shoot the deer. As long as they did it with a crossbow. And... Read Full Story

Sooner or later on a holiday, you have to get out of the house. Everybody, including the cats, is turkey up to HERE. The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04/my-emergency-website.html Read Full Story

Stinz putting out hay for the birds and the poor half-horses. The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04/my-emergency-website.html Read Full Story

So.... do I spend all my time trying to process my books, or do I use it to make new art and pages? I'm not getting any younger, so it may be up to others to get a lot of the additional book-processing done. I can stick smaller page counts up on Indyplanet or collections up on Amazon, but taking time to re-process into Kindle - considering my hundreds of books - is just going to eat up all my remaining years.  Flogging at publishers before starting a project just eats up hours. A quicky... Read Full Story

Just wrapped spices, tobacco, stick of anise in a page from an art catalog, and added that bundle and the last egg we had - the last egg of the old year from our hens - and gifted it to the roaring fire in Betsy the Stove.  If that doesn't tell the sun it's welcome, I dunno what will.  Boiling beans for the new year. Now keep me well enough after all this crud for the yearly chips-n-chicken (or fish) and Mac-N-Jack dinner at the Clallam Bay Inn. Fearless and the Solstice Tree (Any pressies... Read Full Story

Hi!  Click this image, download it, print it out on 8.5" x 11" paper of your choice, fold it up -- ta da! For those of you would like a paper card.  Let's face it, paper and posting is an 18th-century technology; we might as well get ahead of the curve.  Have a Happy Merry and remember -- after Solstice, the sun starts coming back!  (The gold roses are from our yard). The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04/my-emergency-website.html Read Full Story

Sarah Coultier sent me some nice interview questions, and I'm posting it here as she suggested. Hi, Sarah -- I'm typing this with the 'flu, so you might want to proof it. My answers are marked with "D" (Hers are marked "S"). Donna Barr S: Hey - I'm a student at Pacific Northwest College of Art and I'm supposed to interview three artists in the field that I want to go into. I actually have some things that I really want to know about how all five of you work, so - I know you're quite busy, but... Read Full Story

Embedded link - and more information HERE soon. The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04/my-emergency-website.html Read Full Story