Whoa Nellie!!

The title of our blog series is “Harmony and Balance Through Art”. That has always been Sandy’s premise and the genesis of her business/website name…”Art to Harmony”. It has been my personal intention to seek balance and harmony through art in terms of my left brain...

“Oi Vehy” and “OMG”

“Oi vehy” is my attempt at Yiddish (probably not spelled correctly) which sort of means “Madonne” in Sicilian Italian (also probably incorrectly spelled) which sort of means “Whew” in comic book English, all of which are G rated expletives for “Gosh, that was tough”!...

Name That Turtle

One beautiful late afternoon just after sunset, Sandy and I took a walk down by the shore at Kamaole 1 in South Kihei. The cloud patches in the sky were lit up with color, like dabs of paint on a light blue canvas. The patches of color ranged from bright yellow-gold,...

A Tennis Ball Begets a Glass Artist

As strange as it might seem, a tennis mishap was the catalyst that diverted Sandy’s artistic expression medium from acrylic painting to fused glass. Sandy painted for over 30 years, originally in oils, switching to pastels and acrylics in 1999. When we moved from the...