Why Blog It?

Rose in bud at a foreclosed home

 Originally, I began this as a way to keep in touch with friends and family spread out around the globe. I knew they would want to know how things were going with my new life in California. I grew up in a family of teachers and writers, so as a nurse, starting a blog makes me feel a bit like a bull in a china shop.

Madison, eat your heart out, no more $4 peppers!

 I'd heard about the blog class from my sister, Hannah Klaus Hunter who has a gorgeous site and took the blog class before me. So filled with the possibilities and the commitment to building a more vibrant blog, I signed up for a 4-week blog class with Cynthia Morris and Alyson Stanfield.


Today’s assignment is to describe my ideal blog visitors and readers.  Frankly, if I get just a few "frequent flyers," as we call them in the ICU, I will be happy.  My ideal reader is someone who is working full-time and pursuing art on a part-time or side basis. Perhaps starting life anew and healing after a difficult life event.  I've relocated from Madison, WI to the far west and my blog is a means of using photography, art and writing to reflect on what I've experienced and what I'm discovering in California to forge a new and better life.


So Happy Halloween and when I was out walking, what should I see, but a plastic flamingo--not an unusual site in Madison, where the pink flamingo rules since the Pail and Shovel Party put thousands of them on Bascom Hill at UW Madison in 1981. But in my neck o' the woods we keep 'em pink and dress 'em up for each holiday. Here, they look like they've just come out of the CAT Scanner!

I'm Radioactive!