Hello

don’t be confused I’m Kate in the park but Kathy everywhere else

just a silly thing, new name, new space, new life style

My goal for this website is to have a place to organize my thoughts, communicate my hopes and share what I love to do. It’s about how I as a 78-year-old single woman finds my world today, a general commentary on life, and travels in my 1991 RV.

I am the 2nd of 8 siblings born in Duluth Minnesota, I was a LPN for about 20 years in Panama where I went as a Peace Corps volunteer at 21 years of age and married a Panamanian with whom I had 3 children.

There were some interesting times living in Panama of which I will probably tell, check out my Panama stories.

I returned to the USA and finished up my degree as RN working in Texas and Florida. I studied Chinese medicine in Texas and have Masters degree though I mostly needle myself these days.

I am a retired single lady, ready for new challenges as I travel here and there in my 22 ft RV.

And that is who I am today.

I’m mostly happy with who I am today.

I tell you all this to find common ground.

I was pretty happy being a nurse for many years but when I retired I had no plan for what comes next, then I read that anyone can be an artist so I thought I’m anyone, I will be an artist.

I am a woman wondering what comes next, open to new ideas, willing to exchange thoughts but confused and restless about who I am now in these later decades of my life.

Being a twice-retired person of meager resources and advanced age, I started out cheap, buying craft paints and board panels and skinny canvas. I painted flowers the ‘one stroke’ Donna Dewberry way. (she is the one who said anyone can paint) I had fun painting pretty flowers for children and sold them at school and community sales.

But lately, I have been watching u-tube videos of abstract painting and this is my new favorite way to paint. I am a self-taught (artist) painter with help from U-Tube videos, Mr. Lang and Ms. Dewberry and Mr.Tim Gagnon plus a heap of art how-to books There is so much to learn, so many new ways to create art, I’ll need another life-time to learn all this , maybe next life?

By the way, this painting became an amazing table! Resin was the perfect finish!

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Update 3/7/19

Still of meager resources and even yet older, Life has moved on with me to a very new reality, an old lady on wheels. And I’m loving this new life style with GiGI my gas guzzling RV and my Smart car youcandoitBabe.I’m excited to get my life in my tiny RV settled soon so I can get back to painting I’ll need to find a space, I thought perhaps I’d paint outside at the table but it is really windy here, not sure it’s always as windy as it has been here lately, maybe it calms during the summer. Other than the wind, I think this is the best place to be now, warm and snow-less.

Update 7/19

I found a space to paint in, Kathy’s Studio is almost a reality.

5/20

Latest update

My paintings in a art gallery!

I would be super pleased seeing my art in the window of Grape Gallery in T or C NM but who will be buying art in this time of the coronavirus? I’m still pleased.