Elaine Hudson:  

Short update: my beloved husband died October 2014. It's thrown me into a completely different world, and while I appear to be coping, things have .... well... changed. I'll come back and re-write the rest of this when I have the heart to do so, but meanwhile, if you are reading this, take care of yourself and cherish your loved ones. Elaine Updated February 2016 I’m creating on multiple levels, and starting to be “myself” again after losing my beloved Jim. I’m painting, volunteer teaching with a woman’s group, and starting to write. I live in Citrus Heights, a suburb of Sacramento, and love this place. There are three chickens, two indoor cats and two (more or less) outdoor cats that just “showed up”. I travel whenever I have a chance (and a house sitter), paint as the muse takes me (watercolors now) and am beginning to write, with the goal of doing travel writing. Had a total knee replacement and as soon as that is 100% will do the other. After that one, will start traveling with gusto. My plans for being a marine biologist fizzled, which turned out to be a good thing. Noodled around in the art world for a number of years, and then went back to UCSD to finish my degree in Visual Arts. Had a studio/loft in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego, painted, sold artwork, jewelry, and designe...Expand for more