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The opening statements on this site reflect Rita's plan to concentrate on her painting after retirement. And for a short while, that held true. However, health concerns interfered with her plans . The artwork on this page evidences how neuropathy brought about by over a year and a half of chemo treatments steadily degraded her physical ability to paint. The extreme frustration she felt while trying to work on the paintings of the water tower and the Empire State Building led her to put down her brushes for good. Ironically, after she resigned her care to hospice services, some of that ability came back as she transitioned to her death. Unbeknownst to any one else,  she worked secretly on a book of haikus and observations expressed with patterns and calligraphic characters. This small, but powerful  accordian-paged book was discovered shortly after her death and has only been shared with those considered family.

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