Pomegranate, watercolor and colored pencil, 2013

Ooh! or stretched out - ooooh!! It sounds a bit silly but have you paid attention to when you say, ooh! to something? How do you feel? Are you curious? Are you interested? Saying, ooh! is your intuition telling you to look closer and explore some more. Do you follow up on that spark?

My most recent ooh! moment has been in designing a new course that I’m very excited about. It will be a creative, interdisciplinary, deep-dive exploration around the topic of food. How the creative process happens will be in play.

I’m calling it What Do You Bring to the Table?

Everyone is to start with a food they’d each like to explore, and then based on where interests lead, the fun of an open-ended discussion can begin. Historical, culinary, artistic, cultural, botanical, ecological, environmental, economic, musical, linguistic and literary perspectives are some of the possibilities of directions to head.

I’m offering a 90-minute sampler preview of this course for $19 or bring a friend for $29. We’ll meet online via Zoom on Friday, January 8th at 9:00 am Pacific time, or Sunday, January 17th at 12:00 pm Pacific Time (checkout WorldTimeBuddy.com to convert to your time zone).

Bring your curiosity, a food to add to the discussion buffet, and an open mind. Let’s have some fun talking about food!

What was your last ooh! moment?