finding beauty in the everyday


  • Día de los Muertos

    One of mine from a few years ago, found while dusting the bookshelves and baking pumpkin brownies. If you enjoy these posts, please follow Smagik.com and please share!

  • Present Tense.

    October 2017 is almost over. Wow.  With two months left in which, as the previous ten have demonstrated, anything can happen, give yourself a pat on the back for making it this far, for taking a minute to sit and read a blog post, and for continuously doing the best you can. I recently spoke…

  • Update

    It’s been busy, ya’ll! A brief glimpse… It’s October, 90 degrees out, maybe cooler today, there is smoke in the air, people up north recently lost everything, stopped listening to the news to help with current insomnia (it’s helping), began a writing class last night (seems it will be great), reading six books, the man…

  • One Year

    One year ago I was wrapping up a Western in the Rocky Mountains and all that has come to pass was yet to be. I didn’t yet take my LA view for granted or know that I would find an apartment with wood floors, make new friends, tell a story in front of an audience,…