by Joanna | May 5, 2017 | Pregnancy
I’ve always known I wanted to do home births. I was surrounded by them with my mom, extended family, and friends in our homeschool group, so the idea was as natural as breath itself. In 2015, I gave birth to my first daughter at home. It was a good experience, but not...
by Joanna | Apr 10, 2017 | Art
“I sometimes think that a portrait of someone is as much a portrait of the artist doing the portrait.” – John Holliday, UK I loved this quote from the book “Portrait Revolution: Inspiration From Around The World For Creating Art In Multiple Mediums And Styles” by...
by Joanna | Jan 27, 2017 | Modern Times
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day of liberation for Auschwitz. A week or so ago I had come across a website that had taken several publicly shared photos from around the web of people jumping, laughing, or crassly posing at the Holocaust...
by Joanna | Dec 30, 2016 | Art
I really enjoyed doing Inktober in 2016, though I found the deadline of a new drawing every single day to be a really big challenge, one that beat me in the last half of the month. When I saw “Project 52” posted by @lashawnwiltz on Instagram, I fell in...
by Joanna | Oct 11, 2016 | Modern Times
I don’t really know how to start this, or what do say, or how to express myself on this subject. But I do have many thoughts, so I’ll just jump in and do my best to coherently express them here. If we are going to claim righteous morality as the cause behind our every...
by Joanna | Sep 15, 2016 | Motherhood
Being the mother of a 10 month old is both incredibly fun and also incredibly exhausting. It’s so amazing to watch her grow and learn each day, and very tiring when she’s bent on screaming just because she wants to hear her voice. One of the most incredible aspects...
by Joanna | Aug 23, 2016 | Encouragement, Friendship, Life, Modern Times
Making friends as an adult is no joke. Of all the things I took for granted as a child and didn’t appreciate, the ability to easily make friends and plans is one of the ones I miss the most as an adult. Acquaintances are easy, people you see in passing, at work, at...
by Joanna | Aug 16, 2016 | Art, Chasing the Dream, Encouragement, Inspiration
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my art style; what it is, how I can develop and improve it, what makes it special. I can look at the work of artists I follow and pinpoint exactly what I love about their style, what I wish I could emulate in my own work, the...
by Joanna | Jul 19, 2016 | Encouragement, Life, Motherhood, Pain, Parenting, Pregnancy
Life is a day by day process. Never have these words been more true for me than during pregnancy. As my body changes and modifies itself to become the home of a growing baby, I experience a very different life than when I am not pregnant. If this pregnancy follows a...
by Joanna | Jul 12, 2016 | Encouragement, Inspiration, Life, Modern Times, Sadness
Sam: It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so...
