The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

I am getting published by Alien Buddha Press! My first illustrated book of poetry will be out May 25. It will be available on Amazon. Here is what the cover, back, and spine will look like:

I have made some progress on my new PPE painting. I’m going a bit slower with this one. Haven’t felt like painting for more than around an hour at a time. I will try to get in more work than that tomorrow though. I’d like to finish the hood of the larger figure tomorrow if I can.

Wuthering Heights and I have read it probably 6 or 7 times. Another favorite is A Canticle For Leibowitz. I’ve read that many, many times. Watership Down I’ve read 3 times. When I like a book, I’ll re-visit it again pretty reliably, but my very favorite books I’ll revisit year after year when I don’t feel like starting something new.

So I achieved another New Year’s Resolution. I fit my wedding dress! It’s snug, but it zips all the way. By the time of our vow renewal it should be more comfortable. Getting my book published was another major resolution I completed. I achieved every resolution I made for the first 5 months of the year. The other ones were getting exercise down as habit, establishing one meal a day as habit, getting daily coping strategies for panic disorder down as habit, and recovering from panic disorder. Establishing Instagram as habit is the only one I’ve yet to achieve. I will have to make some new resolutions for the second half of the year.