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Chocolate cake with chocolate mousse topped with chocolate cookies under a chocolate dome. Yeah, that’s just about the right amount of chocolate.

Another gorgeous sunrise. Appreciating the little things.

Love jigsaws, love books. Two in one happiness.

Street art in Hua Hin.

American-Australian eating Swedish semla, with some Dutch hot cocoa, reading a book about Japan at my favorite coffee shop in Thailand.

LOL. So sorry for your loss, but LOL.

So, in part of my efforts for “Resist and Unsubscribe,” I am reducing my footprint on the evil facebook. I have been leaving most facebook groups and unfriending two people each day. There were a larger number of friends that have actually died than I realized. Unfriending dead people makes me sad.

Seaside mango daiquiri next to a giant silver rabbit. This is so my life.

Doodle show and tell

Resist and Unsubscribe! You are already on Bluesky. We can all take on Big Tech.

Happy Holi!

Hi everyone! I hope you are well today. Here is a mixed-media painting I finished last week. Mostly jelly gouache.

I have a mermaid as a friend.

I got a sunburn. I am sad. I am also sad because getting a sunburn means I am stupid. I hate being stupid.

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

A friend came to visit. No, make -A Friend Came to Visit. Since I moved overseas 20 years ago no friends have ever come to visit me in any of the incredible places and countries. Except Jody, she has always made the effort.

Sunrise over the Gulf of Thailand, toes in the salty waters and a hot chocolate in the near future. Contentment.

Sometimes your biggest act of kindness is to just leave something be.

Saying "shopping" to me triggers the same response as saying "bath time" to a dog. :)

Albanese should demand reparations from Israel, say families of Australian soldiers whose graves were bulldozed A third family says the Australian government must do more to hold Israel and the Israeli Defence Force to account, including demanding an apology * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The families of dead Australian soldiers whose graves were bulldozed by the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza have called for reparations and urged the Albanese government to hold Israel accountable. Earlier this month, the Guardian revealed that the IDF had bulldozed parts of the Gaza War Cemetery – the resting place of Australian, British and Canadian soldiers who served in the first and second world wars. Continue reading...

Albanese should demand reparations from Israel, say families of Australian soldiers whose graves were bulldozed

Lunch on the beach, Hua Hin, Thailand.

Remember Throwback Thursday? It's so old it needs its own Throwback Thursday. Nonetheless, I liked it, so I think I will revive it. This is me in kindergarten. I hated that dress, it was itchy. But very photogenic.

Latest bit from my sketchbook - working on people and perspective.

Hopefully at some point the weekly deadlines end and you learn to play canasta instead. Also you start old person napping anytime you sit down for more than an hour.

Can you take a sabbatical? Or just take a year off. Of course my hubby did that and couldn’t make himself go back when it was over.

I painted this for my hubby for Valentines Day. He liked it.

My favorite photo I took on a trip to Cambodia in 2012.

Mikhail Shaidorov, the reigning men's figure skating gold medalist, wears a panda suit in his exhibition number during the 2024-25 season

!!! The Kazakh gold medalist Mikhail Shaidorov is bringing back his Kung Fu Panda number for the Olympic gala

You noticed my link between dandelions and echidnas. Good catch.

This how I spent the last two weeks - watching anything and everything at the Olympics, and doodling. I LOVE the Olympics.