Mimi Torchia Boothby

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  • Phil and Vivian Williams portrait

    Phil Williams, recently deceased, was, with his wife and partner, Vivian, one of the most important people in the folk music community in the northwest. I first learned about them in the early 1980s, because my young husband at the time had seen them at Weiser. I enjoyed going to jams at their house, and…

  • Il sogno di Ernesto – Ernesto’s dream

    Ernesto is a little cat that was born in Aleppo, Syria. He was one of the very few cats that was able to survive and evacuated the town in those very last moments last winter. I think Ernesto, who is usually contented just to have a good meal, also dreams of a world where there…

  • horse doodles

    I was given an assignment; to try and reproduce the millions of doodles I did as a young person, of horses. I started out a little intimidated by doodling with a paint brush, but by the 8th one, I was having fun, and this one was #9. This little horse is doing what they call…

  • The woman cave

    So, I’m not easily impressed. But when my friend posted a photo of this wonderful little cabin of hers in the woods, I just had to paint it. Surrounded by woods and flowers, this cabin glows like a jewel in the broken sunshine. I hope I did it justice!

  • The Graduation of Doctor Boothby

    It was a lot of fun to attend the graduation ceremony at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada. A very close family member graduated with a PhD in Mathematics, the first PhD in my family. So many deceased relatives had to have been there, thrilled and cheering to see this happening. Since it was in…