Especially since many on the east coast will have difficulty getting to a polling place ( Read more... )

This report is from The Church Report, a conservative Christian online publication. I have the dubious honour of being on their mailing list because of my one-time project of making rosaries and membership in several rosary-crafting groups ( Read more... )

just finished watching for the umpteenth time, time bandits.  this's been the week for old favorites with edward scissorhands the other day, though it was strange seeing wynona ryder as a blonde, very strange ( Read more... )

yes!! the holidays are finally over....under other circumstances i would feel rather differently, i suppose but in my trade, this is a rather brutal time of year.  numbers of artists arrive for the one month, crowding out those who are around all year as spaces are limited.  the plaza where we work has had nearly no sunlight at all for the last ( Read more... )

tomorrow is the solstice!!!!  the sun will be returning, ever so slowly, to the northern climes.  we've passed the long dark nights and the new year is set to begin tomorrow evening.  very cool.  this year we will also be getting daylight saving time several weeks early as well.  for now, we'll be gaining 1-2 minutes every day ( Read more... )

been too busy to visit here much lately.  work has been more demanding than usual.  sunday's visit to the library was quite productive, found an old art history book for a dollar in the sale section, written by an author i had been trying to remember for years.  my professor had me read his art history books in connection with a doctoral thesis( ( Read more... )

lots going on.  as business changes there is the pressure to once again reinvent our crafts.  the oil paints stored in the back have been sending out a siren song for a long while and now seems a good time.  will be re-borrowing 'draw, how to master the art' a wonderful book that literally sits you at the foot of the great artists and makes you ( Read more... )

A Beloved Professor Delivers
The Lecture of a Lifetime
September 20, 2007; Page D1

Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor, was about to give a lecture Tuesday afternoon, but before he said a word, he received a standing ovation from 400 students and colleagues.

He motioned to them to sit down. "Make me earn it," he ( Read more... )

was playing around with left brain/right brain tests and found this site:similarminds.com.  linlots of interesting tests, an assortment of jungian/enneagram type tests...well worth the visit.

i usually test right brain dominant and always intp.  recently saw the ballerina test where your brain dominance determines which direction she is spinning.  ( Read more... )

Many of these were weekly writing challengs from a now sadly desolate writer's board.  This one has a pictorial prompt:

He hovered in the darkness outside her window, gazing in at the woman who sat at her night table. It had been too long since last he fed and the sight of her alabaster throat, arching as she sat there in a reverie, called to him ( Read more... )