Hi All! Hoping all of you had wonderful holidays and now into a new year, starting out fresh and of course, all of us hoping for happiness, health and prosperity.

For me this past year I was able to recover from my shoulder surgery very nicely, had the opportunity to do an Artist in Residency with ten wonderful children that was so fulfilling, I have worked on healing, affording me to be now medication free! Yahooooo! Right now I think I'm doing well as far as the postpolio situation goes. I guess you'd say a plateau, which is good. I'm feeling great actually, better than I have been since 2000.

I went on a great 10 day vacation with my family, six of us. We rented a cabana on the water down in the keys. It was fantastic! Took some great pics, and maybe will post some at another time. While there we purchased a surrey, which is so cool and am able to ride it with my husband. I promise to get some pics of it on here in the up and coming.

My artistic efforts as always, are so healing. I've painted a lot more this past year than ever. I have also opened myself up to acrylics, which at first I despised and am slowly becoming more accustomed to. Just wanted to try out some new things.

Thought I'd pop in here and say hello and hopefully I may be able to spend a little social time here more often.

I'm including here this great new thing called Animoto. Don't know if you've seen one or heard of it or not, but it's a great site and for free you get a 30 second vid, similar to the one posted here. You get to choose your music and all that jazz. For $30 a year you can make them as long as you like, I believe and can include lots more pictures. It's pretty cool and makes a great advertisement.

So, I guess I'll head off now and visit a few old friends here and in the meantime have a beautiful day. And thanks to those of you who posted some little notes to me while I've been gone!

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A few samples of Lora's Art