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MY CURRENT OBSESSION: Big Energy, Flower Farming, and All Things Floret

May 17, 2023

Big energy. That’s what my sister in-law Robin said in her response to a long, super enthusiastic (and slightly rambling) text I sent to her after diving deep into my favorite gift of this past holiday season: a beautiful book she gave me called Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden by Erin Benzakein. This book isn’t just any book about flowers—it’s a gorgeous and inspiring educational tool filled with incredible photography that is laid out in a balanced ...

VENDEMMIA Is Screening At The Sedona International Film Festival!

Sep 22, 2022

The Sedona International Film Festival is featuring our documentary film Vendemmia as the final film in its four-week Sustainable Tourism Film Series. We will be traveling to Sedona to host the screening personally. Vendemmia, which explores the efforts to balance environmental sustainability in the Cinque Terre of Italy, will show on Thursday, Sept. 29 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre at 4 p.m. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A discussion with the ...

QUARANTINE ART: THE AFTEREFFECTS OF COVID-19

Aug 04, 2022

As we move through the summer of 2022 and we keep getting hit with the "aftereffects" of COVID-19 (how many Omicron variants do we currently have?!?), I’ve been thinking a lot about how much art I was able to produce during the time we were actually in lockdown and how lucky I was to have had art as an outlet. STORM CORVID, one of the mixed-media pieces I did in 2020 during quarantine In early 2020 as news of cases in China and Italy became increasingly more alarming and US ...

STRIKING A BALANCE: The Intersection of Literature, Art + Environment

Aug 02, 2022

I just finished reading Where the Crawdads Sing.You know, the book that just catapulted into the stratosphere when Reese Witherspoon added it to her book club back in 2018. The author, Delia Owens, just appeared along with Reese on CBS News Sunday Morning in a beautiful feature about her life, the book, and making the movie (which just landed in theaters. The cinematography looks absolutely stunning based on the stills from the film in this Vanity Fair First Look ...

ART T'IS LIFE: The Story Behind My Obsession with Crows