Kelly Patrice Collins, cpsa     Colored Pencil Artist

I finally was able to go out kayaking this past Sunday. Summer almost over. I don’t remember ever getting into a kayak last year so it has likely been at least 2 years.  Paul gets to go with our neighbor, Bob, almost every week. He gave up on making me go since there i...

I got to see a rare sight a few weeks ago: two Great Blue Herons fighting over territory. I wished I would have stopped now and let work be damned. I was in the left lane of a five-lane highway and there was another car to my right and another behind that one. So, to g...

When I lived in Detroit, Michigan, my ex-boyfriend turned me on to lots and lots of great ethnic foods: Szechuan, Thai, Japanese (we liked to dare each other to eat the weirdest sushi), Korean, Indian, etc… So, when my middle brother and his wife came to visit, I was v...

Okay. I’ll admit it. I let my dog do something that most people would find disgusting. But I consider it the ultimate recycling. I let her lick the sweat off of my face. I think of it as my own mobile towel system. The only thing I can figure is that she likes/needs th...

I was talking with a friend of mine about a person we both worked with once. I’ll call him Steve. Steve had been rehired to the same place after I left (I was let go, actually, because of downsizing). My friend still worked there. Steve always seemed sort of like a blo...

For the first time ever I got to eat something recommended from a restaurant by Bon Appétit yesterday.

But first.

The four of us (me, Paul, Ursus, Izzy) headed out to the Metolius area for our third weekly trip to look for the elusive morel. I chose a spot to start where...

 So we have this neighbor who lives behind us. Her name is Tammy and she just thinks that Ursus is the sweetest most special dog in the world...next to her own dog, that is. Ursus used to jump on to the top of one of the dog houses that is right next to the fence so he...