It all started with cooking… There have always been those things I didn’t cook.  One day, I decided to start to try cooking those things on the “can’t cook” list existing deep in the recesses of my brain. Some of these items were: miso soup, cakes and icing made totally from scratch, bouillabaisse, clams on the half...

Recently, I’ve been getting into making mosaics with shells that I collect on the beach. The thought occurred to me that mosaics can be made with found objects like buttons. The jar of buttons I was given after college immediately came to mind. I was living in a huge loft in Westchester, New York, with a...