Today I get to play the triangle!

When I was in elementary school, we actually had music class. Coming from a family with very little musical or artistic activity in the home, music class was a fun time.

The box of "instruments" appeared and we could choose one. There were always a lot of blocks and sticks to make noise with, but in the box was one shiny prize – the triangle. It was a real instrument – the one that created a magical musical sound. This past week I had one of those triangle days.

A feature story about my art made my day.

Thursday morning I was off to a slow start, still having leftover symptoms of a cold. I did remember, though, that this was the day when I was to be featured in Relish magazine, a special arts and entertainment section of the Winston-Salem Journal that comes out once a week. I looked online and read the article.

First reaction: my responses to Andrea Brill's excellent questions didn't sound as good as I hoped they would. Second reaction: my hair looks bad in the photo. Third reaction: where the heck do I buy a real newspaper these days?

Finally in the car, I stop at a drug store but no newspapers for sale. Luckily, with chain drug stores on every corner now, I had only to cross the street to find the familiar blue box which held just one copy of the paper. I got change, bought it and for the rest of the day, I was playing the triangle!

I was very impressed with the Winston-Salem Journal staff: Andrea Brill was did a great job of interviewing, checking details and writing the article. She was so easy to talk to. Journal photographer, Lauren Carroll, did a wonderful job of snapping photos of me and my paintings on display at the Associated Artists of Winston-Salem gallery.

Read the Relish article