wedding gift

Today at 3:30 PM a beautiful young couple named Nik and Marlene are getting married at The Leela Hotel. This is the reason our new friend John from Boston is here. Scott and I have had fun playing ping pong with him and tonight we had dinner at Betty’s beach shack with John and four […]

crows continue to get away with murder…

Yesterday I thought I was being cagey by keeping my poolside sandwich under a tin cover. I knew enough to take precautions because of Scott’s previous crow incident early on here. Well, i wasn’t the only one who had her sights set on that delicious chicken tikka kathi roll as I slipped it out from […]

turkey breast on thanksgiving day

We are getting a lot of enjoyment from our hotel pool. It is the one cool oasis in an otherwise brutally hot spate of weather that is reportedly 91F feeling 111F because of the humidity. Scott is completely off of methadone now and that has been replaced with a 50 mg fentonyl patch worn high […]

lotus power

hi from. hot heat my watercolors. really were melting me too……in 90s w humidy in 100plus..so humid. n hot. and. hard. to think let alone do any art but,trying. hard to. make. some. art and. feel the local. color these. flowers are opening. up every. am just like. me…if. i wake. up its a fabulous. […]

we are here in goa!

We made it! We arrived in Goa last night after dark and woke up in paradise. Scott blissed out that the idea has become realized. Our theme song changes with the wind but Elton John’s I’m Still Standing has been coming up a lot lately. Scott is more than still standing. He’s been eating, painting, […]

sunrise in devi gargh

Scott and I got up early…ok, our goal to see the sunrise over the mountains that surround Devi Gargh palace where we are staying in garden suite #9. We piled on layers of clothing to keep warm and headed out, waiting for the sun, waiting for the sun. (And channeling Jim Morrison, apparently)…. photos are […]