Every year, like clockwork, I end up battling beetles. They are the literal scourge of my weeping pussy willow and cherry trees as well as my beautiful roses. I tend to blame the former occupants of our home...
This week’s lesson in the Love Art Happy Life was on Gustav Klimt and the task was to do a Klimt-inspired piece as homework. I continue to recommend this e-course as it is helping me think about art...
I won’t say that I was the biggest fan of Bowie’s, but I have always enjoyed his work and identify his place in the cultural history of our time. He was a seminal figure in art and music and his...
This week I present to you one of the most bizarre and addictive podcasts to date. I have binge-listened to the first dozen episodes of Welcome to Night Vale with the conflicting sense of, ‘Why am I...
A.D. is likely the best gift-giver on the planet. If we were keeping score on thoughtfulness points, I would lose on the daily. But it is merely days before Christmas! Well, sometimes the joy can come early...
The procrastination is over, for the moment, and I have finally created another piece for the NAJ. This weeks entry is Shub -Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young. How’s that for...
I am ambitious. I procrastinate. I think I am pretty normal in both of those assertions. What am I on about today? Well, often one reads about a way to keep the house clean, workout, eat better, do whatever...
Photography newb = phewb? Now that making up my own word is out of the way… If you recall, I shared the other day that A.D. has gifted me an awesome new Sony a6000 DSLR camera. Those of you who know me...