Andrea Cuchetto

Beans, barely awake.

2011-11-21T10:14:00.000-06:00

Jesse Hickman - Contemporary American Folk Artist

2011-09-04T12:46:00.000-05:00

Jesse Hickman - Contemporary American Folk Artist is delightful and well worth a peek. Swim on over and check him out--if you dare!

This is our new kitty, Eyebrow, playing with her favorite toy.

2010-06-10T17:19:00.000-05:00

Cool site of the day

2007-05-27T16:15:00.000-05:00

This little corner of the Web is worth a browse: The Moleskin - Technology, Design and all things Web.

Read any good books lately?

2007-05-03T14:33:00.000-05:00

Funny that you should ask. My most recent read is Joe Haldeman's Camouflage. After a few itty bitty speed bumps (technically, as in I found myself re-reading a few paragraphs) in the first chapter Haldeman's vivid imagery and shifting viewpoints engaged my notions about what it means to be any kind of curious creature in the world. I devoured it.

Where is Melinda Stefanski?

2006-12-14T13:02:00.000-06:00

My dear koleżanka. Where are you?

Your paisano,

Andrea

Andrea on Picasa (Google) Photo Albums

2006-08-24T12:36:00.000-05:00

acuchetto

Jun 19, 2006 - Aug 24, 2006
20 Photos

Good Morning!

2006-06-19T08:21:00.000-05:00

Up

2006-06-09T09:32:00.000-05:00

Reflections in my backyard

2006-06-07T10:26:00.000-05:00

This is not me.

2006-06-06T11:44:00.000-05:00

cuetip

2006-03-27T17:32:00.000-06:00

cuetip :: a wiki about the importance of mind-reading and the hazards of the "mind-blind" condition.

Andrea Head Shot

2006-03-27T14:32:00.001-06:00

Andrea Head Shot
Originally uploaded by acinme.

There is a nice patch of gray up front...looks like I brushed my head against a freshly painted wall. The rest of my head shows darker-than-ever hair speckled with silver. Fascinating, eh?

Bald is Bald!

2006-03-18T00:18:00.000-06:00

I got my head shaved tonight for a children's cancer research fundraiser. My brother-in-law asked me to join him to watch his daughter while he got his head shaved for the cause. Well, all those folks participating--young and old--were mostly men. When a man gets his head shaved (or loses his hair) it is a big deal. But, there were only a couple of women participating. I was inspired. Fortunately, I was able to participate as an onsite shavee and they auctioned off my hair. It was great fun and my hair fetched nearly $400--hurray! I am grateful to have the choice to support cancer research and show my solidarity with cancer survivors. Carpe diem! I'll post a picture or two when I get them.

the family tree

2006-02-15T13:15:00.000-06:00

When you get a chance, check out the new Web site for our family happenings. It's a wiki. A wiki allows you to easily add stuff to a Web site, and/or make changes. It's a pretty good way to keep in touch when working with a diverse range of people with a common goal. Let me know if you have any questions and I'll do my best to wander through with you.

I'm moving from Maine to Illinois.

2005-11-08T17:21:00.000-06:00

Judy

2005-10-22T04:41:00.000-05:00

Is this the moment...?

Judy
Originally uploaded by acinme.

Andrea Blog-of-the-Day

2005-09-19T13:44:00.000-05:00

Andrea In Japan - Rambling Notes

Ideal State

2005-08-14T22:49:00.000-05:00

Ideal State. Bronze (my very first one!). Ball peen finish with gray to black and brown to black patina.

Inspirational drawing (done 10 years earlier, recently revised).

savini

2005-08-09T01:02:00.000-05:00

savini gals (gram in black)
Originally uploaded by acinme.

2005-08-03T23:21:00.000-05:00

Before the After

swinging baby

2005-08-02T19:36:00.000-05:00

diaper-clad baby in two-seater chariot swing
Originally uploaded by acinme.

if i swung high enough i *knew* i could land in another dimension...

2005-07-30T23:25:00.000-05:00

After the Before

Hackers & Painters

2005-07-24T11:27:00.000-05:00

Hackers & Painters: "We live in the computer age, a world increasingly shaped by programmers. Who are they, what motivates them, and what impact will they have on the rest of us?"

2005-07-08T04:29:00.000-05:00

("The Girl Next Door" - Oil on Gessoed Paper, Andrea Cuchetto - licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License)

Loop Back

2005-07-06T11:38:00.000-05:00

art in me

2005-07-06T11:30:00.000-05:00

"Edge of Divinity" -- Bronze, Andrea Cuchetto (under the direction of Michael Warrick and Aaron Hussey @ UALR)

A missing relative?

2005-07-01T01:17:00.000-05:00

Aviation Posters: "Costes and the Atlantic"

Birthdays

2005-06-14T15:54:00.000-05:00

Happy birthday to me!

My dear Aunt Margie...she is missed.

2005-01-10T20:40:00.000-06:00

"MARGORIE COHRS: Executive Secretary, 74. Margorie Cohrs of Littleton, an executive secretary, died Dec. 30. She was 74. Services were Monday at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church. ...." (The Denver Post, Jan. 7, 2000, pg 9B)

spumoni

2005-01-08T17:04:00.000-06:00

tall, giant paws, perm-
anent grease black beneath
nails chewed by steel shards...
tweezers in tiny fingers face
close to see sharp slivers--
to save Pappa pain--like
mouse to net-trapped lion,
or thorn-bound pachyderm

almost forgotten poetry

2004-12-30T03:17:00.001-06:00

In an earlier life I wrote a poem called "Baking" and it's published in this interesting anthology: Jane's stories : an anthology of work by midwestern women Glenda Bailey-Mershon. Palatine, Ill.: Wild Dove Studio and Press, 1994. ISBN: 0963989405 Does your library own a copy?

The New York Times > Books > A New Forum (Blogging) Inspires the Old (Books)

2004-12-30T00:22:00.000-06:00

The New York Times > Books > A New Forum (Blogging) Inspires the Old (Books): "Bloggers have their own Web sites, on which they write frequently updated posts, almost like online diaries. The postings are about current events, culture, technology or their own lives. Many of their postings contain links to relevant sites."

Art Builds Community!

2004-12-29T23:22:00.000-06:00

" Art Builds Community! is the central resource for arts, culture, history and heritage in the greater Manchester, NH area. Included on the site is a comprehensive calendar of events happening in and around town, a detailed artist directory, detailed information about our cultural community and much more."

SUNWEAVERS-INCORPORTRATING-INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR WATER, POWER HEAT

2004-12-23T19:27:00.000-06:00

"The Traveling Solar Show tours the northeastern United States incorporating energy saving technologies with solar demonstrations. Sunweaver spends June through October on the road raising awareness about the potential and capabilities of solar energy."

Questions: Why aren't we using this technology in more things? And, what about more crank-powered and wind powered tools?

American Life Histories...

2004-12-09T20:58:00.000-06:00

Living History Project

I wonder how frequently this theme is repeated in literature, film, and other works? There are so many, but all I can think of is "Vanilla Sky"...

2004-11-18T22:28:00.000-06:00

: "Harvard Classics, Vol. 26, Part 1...Life Is a Dream...Pedro Calderón de la Barca...
Calderón spins a metaphysical tale about Segisimund, who is imprisoned by his father, the King, because it is prophesied that Segisimund would become a tyrant. One day the King relents and Segisimund awakens from his nightmare to find himself crown prince. His actions prove the prophesy correct, and he is banished once again, where he convinces himself that everything that has happened to him is but a dream. He subsequently escapes and learns to rule wisely."

Autumn Musings

2004-11-17T22:32:00.000-06:00

'Phina's Hands

Josephine Cuchetto, born in tiny French town, where she lived in a convent until she was five, was raised in Rome, Italy, by her grandparents. She was invited to join her own parents in the United States when she was sixteen. Her family sent for her to help manage their other offspring born in the States. At sixteen years old, with no English skills or other formal education, she was placed in the first grade. My grandmother, Josephine, did not fit in the first grade. She went to work in a factory where she met a woman who spoke Polish as her first language, but who still taught her enough English to help her get by. She never learned to drive. She married young and had eight children. She made the best polenta, risotto, gnocci, tortellini, ravioli, rabbit, lasagna, oatmeal cookies, spaghetti, "junky juice" (watery Kool Aid), and "cha cha bread" (Challah bread). She measured all the spices for her gravy (rich, tomato-based sauce) in the small of her hand. My mother learned how to cook by watching her (her mother was English and never quite had a knack for it). Teaching by showing made the most sense anyway, since Grandma was barely functionally literate.

"When you gonna make the pasta, 'Phina," she whined, retelling the tales of her sister's pleas. "How come I always gotta do it," she'd ask. "Because you're short," they'd tell her. "You're short so you're just the right height for the table where you make the pasta." When she re-told it she laughed and smiled, but the price she paid wasn't funny. When Josephine was in her sixties her hands were literally in such bad shape--the muscles were all misaligned--from so many years of making pasta, she had surgery in an effort to salvage them.

Grandma always had a distinctive way of speaking. "You're going to be a 'strimp' like me, she'd pronounce, as she brushed the 'rats nests' outta of my hair, hair dampened and matted from running and playing in her huge backyard and in her one climbing tree. She didn't recognize me and I scared her the last time I saw her. Not long before that I interviewed her on video, and my parents helped, but if I had done so just a few years earlier I would have gotten more of her life. By then, she had to be reminded and prompted, and it was clear she wasn't certain the stories she relayed to me (me, one of more than two dozen grandchildren) were really about her life. She seemed quite certain, though, when she spoke of the surgery she had on her hands.

Grandma kept her house so clean that the family regularly spoke of eating off her floor (which I didn't get for a long time--why would you want to eat off the floor?). She remembered vividly when she had both hands in casts after surgery because the doctor decided it would be best to do both at the same time. How maddening that must have been for her, since she never really stopped moving--she was such a doer. To be so dependent upon others, and to pay such a high price for her lifelong servitude and talents! Her hands never did work right after that. The muscles were weakened and atrophied and so she had to learn to make do with what she had.

When I think of 'Phina's hands now, I can see my own hands more clearly; and, even when they hurt, I still remember what they can do. God bless Grandma.

The Experience

2004-11-17T21:57:00.000-06:00

Sometimes it doesn't matter about the weather or the time. It is no sacrifice to forego eating or sleeping. Because...(yes, I do remember) sometimes no matter what... it is worth just one more brush stroke, rag wipe, or Degas connection--it is all worth that one single magical minute toward the act of creation and its accompanying elation.

And others...like now...it doesn't matter about the weather or the time.... My canvas is cool and stark--blank and beckoning. In the corner of my room, neatly folded like last night's pajamas (forget about sleeping in the nude), buried under a growing pile of messy engagements and stifling uncertainties, my passion simmers and I grow arthritic.

Reuters PhotoArafat, Founder of Palestinian Cause, Dead at 75

2004-11-10T23:02:00.000-06:00

Reuters PhotoArafat, Founder of Palestinian Cause, Dead at 75: " Nov 10 8:59pm PT

Reuters PhotoArafat, Founder of Palestinian Cause, Dead at 75
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who rose from guerrilla icon to Nobel prize-winning peacemaker only to fall into isolation amid new violence with Israel, was declared dead in a Paris hospital on November 11, 2004, officials said. Arafat is shown at a march in Gaza, July 8, 2000. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)"

this is primal ink.com, art that makes you smile

2004-11-10T22:23:00.000-06:00

this is primal ink.com, art that makes you smile

Order Windows XP Service Pack 2 on CD

2004-11-10T12:12:00.000-06:00

Order Windows XP Service Pack 2 on CD: "Microsoft will ship the CD to you free of charge."

National Novel Writing Month - National Novel Writing Month

2004-11-08T14:44:00.000-06:00

National Novel Writing Month - National Novel Writing Month

Wordpress

2004-11-02T20:54:00.000-06:00

: "WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time."

Maine Medical Center Culturally Expands

2004-11-02T20:37:00.000-06:00

"When Portland' Maine Medical Center (MMC) discovered that an increasing number of Muslim women were canceling or failing to show up for scheduled outpatient appointments, the hospital canvassed the Muslim community to find out why."

Je m'appelle Andrea.

2004-11-01T03:01:00.000-06:00

andrea
In the days before the sun stopped shining on my face and I had a few more pounds to keep me healthy...this shot is from a Florida business retreat when I had a promising career as a something or other. But now, I am delighted to say, iteachinme.

Put yourself through the Keyhole

2004-10-31T19:23:00.000-06:00

Finally, I can travel without motion-sickness! I made it "home" for a visit tonight (Chicago is a great place to visit). How can I fly there in seconds? Thanks to Google's latest adventure--Keyhole. You have to try it: Keyhole

Michigan Ave. & Adams St. in Chicago

2004-10-31T19:00:00.000-06:00

Michigan Ave in Chicago

I think this is the Chicago Art Institute, but I couldn't find the lions by the front door. I flew here in seconds with Keyhole.

allison's goat

2004-10-31T17:56:00.000-06:00

allison's goat
andrea.

I had my chance to draw a goat when Allison vacationed in New Zealand and I watched her house and fed the goats and the cats for her. Have you ever drawn a goat?

King Fisher Trail, Chenal Mountain, Arkansas

2004-10-31T17:35:00.000-06:00

KingFisher Trail, Chenal Mountain, Arkansas
Originally uploaded by iteachinme.

A hollow tree, the likes of which I may never again see, with cypress knees pushing from beneath the shallow waters, dancing with the light filtering through the leaves.

Google: Happy Halloween!

2004-10-31T00:46:00.000-05:00

Google

2004-10-16T07:17:00.000-05:00

Shadow Self

2004-08-16T12:05:00.000-05:00

Creating mosaics with Charlotte in "No. Little Rock, AR"

2004-08-06T07:02:00.000-05:00

Oblivion