We shot hours of footage the other day for a few minutes of promotional video for my school classroom visits and new artistic endeavors. I am convinced it is easier to write and publish books, travel the world, and paint 100 paintings than it is to talk about the work I do on video and not sound like a complete goon. And then there’s the anxiety afterwards… “I hope I sounded at least slightly intelligent”… “I hope I didn’t make dumb faces”… and of course, the thing I fear the most – “I hope I didn’t look fat!”

We should have them completed and on the sites in the next couple of weeks so you’ll have to tell me the truth then… please be gentle…

Next up is to finish the two paintings I am working on BEFORE I leave for New York in mid February. They are going more smoothly and a lot more quickly than the last painting I wrote about, so I have hopes I might be able to accomplish this goal. I’ll post a ‘sneak peek’ in a little while.

And then there are the upcoming school visits which require a miracle in planning. It’s great to be wanted at so many schools, but having only 20 minutes to travel between schools which are 40 miles apart, might be a problem. If only I could find those rocket-booster shoes I left somewhere…

Truth is – I love to be busy… as long as I don’t look fat!