October 3, 2011...Learning to throw pottery on a wheel has been a great, but extremely challenging and frustrating joy in my life over the past couple of years.

I take a class once a week and also completed a week of intensive study through  Santa Cruz Adult Education, with an instructor that is a master potter and a well-known professor in the area.

Here is a group of freshly thrown bowls and vases. They have not been fired yet: