How To Be Your Own Best Friend

"Water Lilies" by Claude Monet

Since Debra left this world -- it's been four years and three months --  I guess I am my own best friend. I love my blog. And my paintings. Good thing, because judging from my readership stats and sales of my work, hardly anyone else does.

I read my old blog posts whenever I can't sleep and get up in the middle of the night. Like this night. They are funny and interesting and always contain at least one fact worth knowing. 

My paintings adorn the walls of my house and make me happy. Each one is beautiful in its own way. Every one I finish becomes the best painting I've ever done, until the next one.

Here's the fact: Claude Monet, the French Impressionist, completed a new painting every 10 days and left behind 2,200 canvases when he died. I am not a fan of his work -- too sappy, and they all look alike -- but he must have loved it.