a sampling of Val’s full-spectrum art
The Road to Resilience:
(Reflections on the Real, the Raw, and the Ridiculous…).
Welcome to my world of Whack, Whimsy, and Wonder.
It ain’t always pretty– but it ain’t beige.
This is where the rubber meets the road, the chicken meets the road … and … more often than not, the chicken is a rubber one.
This road leads to Humor, Healing, Heart, and Hope.
(I hope.)
Please join me—and the chickens—on this whack-full, wonder-full, and whimsy-full, non-beige journey!
from the blog
Trumpster the Trickster (The Messenger is Out of the Bottle)
Is the Medium the Message? In Greek mythology, Hermes was the all-important messenger of the Gods, able to travel freely between the over-world and the underworld. Did you know he was also considered the “Trickster?” The Trickster character appears in many cultures...
In Case of Emergency, Break Glass!
(Tequila!)...
Mind the Gap
Sometimes the chasms in a relationship are too large too bridge, The gaps too great, The canyons too grand. (But enough about that...) Do these jeans make my butt look...
JAILBREAK! (THE GET OUT OF JAIL FREE PASS)
Sometimes a “soulmate” is, in fact, a “cellmate.” I spent twenty years in a marriage that, in retrospect, was a sentence. All stripes, no stars. The more I gave, the less I received. I was starving for crumbs of love, begging for a bone. Any crumbs, any bone. “Throw...
Death by Dimming … A Dull and Deadly Way to Go
I lived the first fifty years of my life in an environment of chronic testosterone overload… An alpha male physician father and three brothers, followed by an alpha male husband and three sons, as well as twenty-plus years of practicing medicine surrounded by alpha...
Spin Doctor (Playing with Pandora)
“You should be over it by now,” my parents told me one year into a 2 ½ year-long divorce from my husband of twenty years. “You are wasting your time and money on therapy and books.” I was told that I was “neurotic”-- I was dwelling too much on the pain, ruminating too...
Hello Beige
Life is Art. Life is Heart. (Welcome Back, Hermie!) I was a fun, funny, whacky, creative kid. Until “Hermie’s Hot Dog Stand,” that is. “Hermie’s Hot Dog Stand” was a short story I wrote in Miss Lawson’s 8th grade English class. In this adolescent opus of fun fiction,...
the much anticipated, forthcoming, visual memoir of divorce
Pathos and play,
Humor, Heart, and whacky art…
It’s all here in DIARY OF AN EX-MAD, EX-DESPERATE, EX-HOUSEWIFE: A VISUAL MEMOIR OF DIVORCE, a compilation of the many pieces of quirky yet heartfelt art and writing I created as a self-prescribed means of healing the weeping wounds of my divorce.
DIARY is intended as a gift book for women who are either themselves navigating the lonely and painful terrain of divorce—or know someone who is.
(And who doesn’t??)
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