From the monthly archives:

November 2008

We See More Than We Think We See

by Barbara Hartsook on November 20, 2008 · 2 comments

in Conversation Over Coffee

Our eyes see more than we think… Yesterday, I said to a friend that, while driving through a small town just south of me, I felt a throwback to an earlier time, perhaps a time of my grandmother – who knows how far back I was thrown for just an instant. Vintage photo of my [...]

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Why Do You Read Blogs?

by Barbara Hartsook on November 15, 2008 · 10 comments

in Blogging,Conversation Over Coffee,Painter Tutorials

Why would anyone come to read my blog Over Coffee? Or any blog for that matter? The question was the first in my blogging class homework assignment, and it has kept me wondering for the past two weeks. Why indeed? Why read my blog? For the same reasons I read those similar to mine, I [...]

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When and How Do You Plan, Organize Your Days?

by Barbara Hartsook on November 6, 2008 · 9 comments

in Blogging,Conversation Over Coffee

First I make the coffee. The day begins with the earliest light, and I love being alert to it. My morning coffee is my companion, offering its warmth and taste to a new me. Or at least me on a fresh slate. Over coffee, my mind gets ready to think… I like the mornings. I [...]

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It Takes a Lifetime to Develop our Craft… Fully

by Barbara Hartsook on November 1, 2008 · 4 comments

in Conversation Over Coffee

Etched onto two large wooden tiles and mounted on an even larger fireplace at a Craftsman Inn somewhere in upstate New York is this writing: “The Lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.” My husband and I had spent the night at this Inn one crisp fall weekend, and since I like my [...]

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