notes from the publisher/founder
PAMELA HULSE ANDREWS

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess. — Angelina Jolie

Crazy, Sexy & Cool

Springtime can make you a little crazy (if you aren’t certified already) — especially if you have allergies that zap your energy and throw you for a loop until you can get a handle on the right meds. What I love, however, about spring is that it’s the beginning of the ‘let’s all go outside and get to know each other again’ season.

This is when you crawl out from beneath the flannel sheets and begin to experience everything around you. Spring is, according to Robin Williams, nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party.” I suggest that you embrace the changes in the weather with gusto……when the sun shines hot, but the cold winds still blow cold. It’s an amazing transition and it happens so quickly…one day you go to bed and the ground is still cold, bare and brown, the next day the buds are out, the leaves have sprung from the apple trees and the crocus are blooming. It is just so cool the first time I walk out to my garden and flowers are beginning to flourish and the smell of mint is in the air.

Spring suggests, to me, to live life just a little bit fuller than before. Have fun, be a little crazy, be weird in some interesting way (like wearing a bright, sexy Hawaiian shirt with blue striped pants, painting something outside in your garden some crazy vibrant color or wearing a big floppy hat and trying to go incognito in public). Go out and find something new to discover. Seek waterfalls, sunshine, comets and rainbows over every horizon. Watch the tulips unfold (I know you have to sit quietly for a long time for this to occur, but imagine how relaxed you’ll be.)

Go to the art galleries and find a painting that inspires you — buy it or go home and try to unveil your own hidden imagination. Plant wildflowers everywhere. Get a puppy, a bird, a kitten. It’s time to have something that completely depends on you. And most of all……laugh out loud as often as you possibly can. It’s contagious.

Don’t try to perfect spring with complicated gardening or too much spring cleaning, just try to be an excellent example of a fun-loving and generous human being. Spring is, after all, a lot like life. If we had not had winter, then we would not welcome spring so profusely. If we had no adversity in our life, then we would not welcome joy so completely. Be surprised!

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Pamela Hulse Andrews
Publisher/Founder

Valerie Clark
Art Director

Linda Galloway
Production Director

Sondra Holtzman
A&E Editor, Queen of Arts

Tom Hamilton
Senior Editor

Jeff Martin
VP of Sales & Business Development

Kari Pinkerton
Advertising Executive

Justin Williams
Advertising Executive

Sarah Lawrence
Feature Writer

Kelli Fronabarger
Office Manager

Editorial Advisory Board

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Dora Goudy The Museum at Warm Springs

Theresa Hill Theresa’s Fine Framing

Carol Johnson-Bryant Cascades Theatrical Co.

Sandi Landolt Art on the Go

Sandra Mayernik The Barclay Gallery

Lloyd McMullen Artist/Artists Local 101

Sandra Miller Frame Design & Sunbird Gallery

Pam Beezley Sunriver Music Festival

Cate O’Hagan Arts Central

Deanna Paik Deschutes Gallery

Julia Rickards Clearwater Gallery

Sally Russenberger Cascade Festival of Music

Maralyn Thoma Dougherty 2nd Street Theater