Standing back and regarding her handiwork, the woman who has ministered to all the medical needs of our family for the past 20 years, proclaimed, “Well, if you can live with those bunions, the scar that you’re going to have on that knee won’t present ANY problem!” The subject of her statement was my own [...]
Category Archives: Maggie Campbell
Thieves Market … or “Mom! We made thirty-six hundred dollars!”
December 6, 2010, 11:20 pm
In her high-pitched, four-year-old, most excited voice, Maggie Campbell crowed to me through the phone receiver, “Mom! We made thirty-six hundred dollars!” The year was 1984. I was in Omaha, and I had sent Craig and Maggie off to the Thieves Market in Iowa City with a Datsun pickup loaded with my engravings. I was [...]
Spring ephemerals
April 30, 2010, 9:06 am
…”springtime ephemeral –simply meaning it disappears back underground after its early display…” Violet “These will be so great for a Mother’s Day post!” Maggie crowed after I sent her my first drawings of some spring ephemerals that we hope to use for a collaborative project. In short, I’ve done the drawings and the plan is [...]
Karen’s flowers & Maggie’s journals
July 15, 2009, 5:43 pm
“The world is so full of a number of things I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” Robert Louis Stevenson It’s high summer in Iowa. The restored tall grass prairie that my pup, Buddy, and I jog through daily is teeming with life, scents, sounds, and color. Likewise, our own Karen Hoyt’s [...]
#7: Maggie Campbell / December 7
December 7, 2008, 8:15 pm
How am I going to keep Maggie Campbell’s “Snow Angel” cards in stock? If you’ve ever lived where there’s snow, you’ve engaged in this activity. A charming line contour drawing of the universal child lies amidst the debossed form of the snow angel.