This week – not in The Pearl – January 8, 2025


Writing this from our deck in San José del Cabo, the quieter village 40 minutes east of the party city. Quiet is relative, but such is life, at least not much in the way of late night revelry here. The highlight of the weekend, before we left for Mexico, was Saturday when we met up…

TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – What is good?


Many years of coaching and counseling lead me to the conclusion that the source of most of our problems is the insecurity that springs from our sense that we don’t measure up. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in our art. People talk about themselves and art in comments that seem to be connected to…

This week in The Pearl – Looking back a bit


This week we started yet another trip around the sun, it got me to thinking of how our circumstances change over the years. I went back through all of my photos and sketches dated January 1, or at least within a day or two of that. Some years are absent but it was an interesting…

TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Travel on my mind


We had a wonderful holiday month, starting with seven of us at our small place for Thanksgiving. Then a few other times when people came over, then seven again here for Christmas Day. Then we had eight people on Friday when Tricia’s sister and family visited for the weekend from Seattle. In between our hosting…

Greetings from The Pearl


Merry Christmas and wishes for a peaceful 2026. Thank you all for being a part of this blog and my life.