Penelope Illustration • Penelope Dullaghan

My babe is sick. So we’re dealing with rough nights (ROUGHER nights I should say… I didn’t know that was possible!), weepy snotty coughy stuffy long days and clinging to mama like a chi-chi monkey. And all this while every single one of my clients finally pipes up and says: go! paint! make art miracles [...]

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All my textbooks are starting to arrive for the yoga training course that starts in 2 weeks. Each package I open gets me more and more excited. I can’t wait to learn all the sanskrit, understand anatomy, and basically immerse myself in the study of yoga.
The course I’m doing is the [...]

and each matters.

My happy little peanut has 2 teeth coming in!

Life has obviously changed since Veda came into my life. Specifically my artistic life has changed significantly, as I wrote about here already. And I’ve been sort of wallowing in that for quite some time… not knowing exactly how to handle this being a full-time mama and full-time artist simultaneously. And at times questioning whether [...]

I’ve got the yoga teacher training application and tuition agreement filled out, signed, and in the envelope already addressed and stamped. And I’ve been carrying it around in my purse for a little while, walking by various mail drops and getting an excited/nervous feeling in my gut. It’s such a commitment. Not only on my [...]

A few months ago I was honored with the request to write an essay for the inspirational wishmamas website, a site dedicated to “heartfelt stories about the extraordinary journey of art and motherhood”. I said yes. And then panicked a bit about how much I should share… as it’s not been an easy road for [...]

I have been taking yoga classes at the YMCA in my tiny town, which is a different experience for me because it’s a gym atmosphere and mostly fitness based (which is not really my aim). One wall in the room is made up of solid mirrors, and our mats face it, so it’s impossible to [...]