A HUGE thanks to everyone who helped me get this over the finish line. It was a long time coming, but I did it, with your help. Finally. Whew!

You inspired me, pushed me, questioned me, listened to me muse and mull this show, over and over. You let me bounce ideas off you. Bend your ears. So kind!

I got started, in my head, several times, then got stumped and discouraged. But with your help (whether you knew you were helping or not) I stuck it out, and in the end, with your help, made it a reality.

Friends by name are (not in order of important per se): my family! of course (Pat, Bob, Liz, Rachel, my KIDS!, aunts, uncles, neices and nepheews), Lynn Anne, Stacie, Suzanne, Karen, Steve, Manya, Michael, Melissa, Reginald, Gwen, Rhonda, Nelson, Leslie, Jon, Ariel, Craig, Anne, Elizabeth, Kathy, Erika, Shawn, Sean, Lori, ... and that's it I think. If I've missed someone, forgive me!

People who contributed to the RECIPE BOOK (click here to download) -- I made recipe book (with food poems in it too), and also some aprons! for this show -- are: Anne, Elizabeth, Craig, Ruth, Lanise, Rachel, Liz, Pat, Manya, Steve, Rhonda, Robin and Scott, Harry, Mark, my kids, Kathy and Iñakii, Carrie and Wes, and Erika. THANK YOU!!

And of course, without Lori Fisher at the Bellefonte Art Museum offering to show my work, there would not have been a show at all!

So special thanks to Lori, for her faith in me. For not batting an eye at my zany ideas, for her kind and considerate willingness to consider each one of them I suggested as if they were actually possible. What a gift!