Living with an Artist

This coming fall Becky and I will have been living together for 45 years. We started going out together in the fall of 1975 and a year later she moved into my house on Seymour Street when one of my friends moved out and we had an open bedroom. Of course Becky shared my room and that other room became her art studio for the next three years.

When we moved to Buffalo in the spring of 1979 we had an apartment on Putnam Street on the West Side. There were two bedrooms along with a living room, dining room and kitchen and with a small room at the back of the house that became Becky's art studio.

We stayed in that apartment for almost eight years and then we bought a house on Shirley Avenue in the city's University Heights neighborhood. We really liked that house that had a nice open living room and dining room, a good kitchen, and two bedrooms on the first floor. The second floor had a nice finished bedroom and a large unfinished area where we made an office/computer room and of course an art studio after we built a painting wall. We were in that house from 1986 to 1997.

In May 1997 we bought and moved into our current home on Crescent Ave in the Parkside neighborhood. The house is an old Victorian home built in 1907 and we have a nice living room, dining room and kitchen on the first floor, and three bedrooms on the second floor. Three bathrooms are nice too. Up on the third floor we have a couple of finished rooms that were used for bedrooms by the previous owners. One room became an office/music room and the one in the front of the house became Becky's studio. There was also a lot of storage space up there for Becky's artwork. Later after the kids moved out one of the 2nd floor bedrooms became a guest room with a drawing table and area to work for Becky.

We've always had lots of artwork on our walls and there are many art books on our shelves. Becky is not on an artist but an art educator and author too.