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• Looking Down and How to Ride the Subway – Two Stand-Out Life Lessons

  April 1, 2018

  These two lessons came when my sister and I would visit our bohemian uncle in New York City. He was an artist and writer/illustrator of children’s books. During the week we were with our parents in Westchester County in a very remote, wooded area. It was idyllic and peaceful but for some reason w...

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• To Artshow, Or Not

  March 14, 2018

  I have the possibility of entering a local art show, coming up in May. I can't decide if I'm ready or not for a two day, mostly sales event. I have a good body of work in watercolors, famed and ready to go. I also have my two children's books that I wrote and illustrated.…

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• In Need Of A Full Time Editor

  March 11, 2018

  I have tons of ideas for stories but I've come to find out that I suck at writing. What do I do? Can I take an English as a first language class? It's not grammar as much as I become a little dyslexic with tenses, sentences and even occurrences. Not sure how, but it takes…

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• Back at it

  March 10, 2018

  How fun to have open diary back up. This was such a great community with friends that have stayed in touch over the past years since it had closed down. Could it really have been ten years?! So what's changed. We have a smart, gorgeous, loving dog. He's seven years old and just a joy…

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• Wait, really?

  January 29, 2014

  Jeeesh. I've been writing in here ( I know not lately) but since October of 2000. Gel talked about Prosebox? Okay....What an incredible community to all of a sudden lose! I can be reach in many places. penny@penzar.com or facebook penny ross burk, twitter as penzart and www.penzart.com, Penro on ...

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• Art is to blame

  October 23, 2013

  Sorry I have been MIA, which could stand for Missing In Art. The news is, that after I quit the uncomfortable and way too simple version of an online masters degree, I jumped waist deep into my art (thus, not writing) From the immersion into paint and stitching I'm doing a show. Will you be…

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• …Easy go…

  June 30, 2013

  Well that didn’t last long. Thanks for all the encouragement but I quit the program. The online format was so bad that I was tearing my hair out. It was awful! The expectation was to read the required chapters and answer a question in an online forum. We all (maybe 12 of us) had the…

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• Hi!

  June 18, 2013

  Hello! New life program started a few months ago. I have started a master’s program in counseling psychology at the ripe old age of almost 57. I’m not even sure what I’ll do with it when I’m done but I want the information and the mental exercise. Sorry for my absence but ...

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• doodling with colored pencil

  March 13, 2013

  Stream of consciousness drawing. Nothing too serious here just shapes and colors, maybe one step beyond doodling but not much more. Shoot:   Blink : Rise:                       ...

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