I'm intending to do either a poem or a small--very small, like playingcard size or slightly larger--painting four or five times a week for the next year. I love these little projects that have a beginning, a middle, and an end.Usually, I give them more focus than this one has at the moment, but I might find a focus at some point, and zero in on something. Right now, I just want to get started.

On October first of 2004, as I was massaging a sore muscle from weight-lifting, I had that moment that every woman dreads: I found a lump. From there began a series of visits to doctors, laboratories, X-ray departments, operating rooms, radiation center, and other challenges that amazed me with how alert I had to remain.

This is the first page of my new Beaver Island Arts website, designed by my son Dylan Kuhn, who has trained me to maintain and continue it. Take a look! The layout is cleaner, the links should be working, the typeface is readable, and, glory be, it is UP TO DATE!

The second book in the Great Lake Treasure hunt series is due out this summer!