After a productive life as a Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, I spontaneously started to paint still life watercolors, I love color and transparent watercolor. Light and shadow –created by the sun outside but observed primarily indoors in the kitchen– are magic. For me, lighted round fruits of vibrant colors, such as oranges and tomatoes, combined with blues, usually found in ceramics and fabric, represent a promise: of the pleasures of food, meals, community, and peacefulness. Watercolors are part of that promise. The term ‘still life’ is significant in more ways than one: the world needs still life. Using a transparent palette and techniques, I arrange and rearrange kitchen items, often food, in the sun attempting to capture beautiful colors with their shadows and reflections.