I have a lot of confidential material to destroy daily and my workplace doesn’t have a stellar method for disposing of all this paper. There are garbage bags full of shredded paper that get sent to...
It’s the day most northerners dread: the first snow. Now, there’s not a lot of snow, a flurry really, but it makes me want to stay inside and be cozy and warm. I reject instinct. Today’s...
This weeks Journal 52 had three options for a prompt: skulls, crows or what the heart knows. Since I am not a big on drawing hearts and kind of suck at being girly in that way, ‘what the heart...
There are few things that make such a fine combination as podcasts and food, and Gastropod is a tasty blend! I first learned of this podcast when talking to my Uncle in a mid-holiday visit. He and his family...
Time goes so quickly as you get older. As I was conceptualizing this post and thinking back on last year, this all feels like it just happened. So I Googled. I found a fascinating paper titled, Age Effects in...
This is the second part of a two-part series on our Hudson Valley Overnight, so head back and start at Part 1, we’ll be here when you’re ready! The Dover Stone Church Back on the road, we arrived...
This week didn’t see a lot of progress on the deepening of my knowledge of photography, but it did see some increased breadth. What I really learned was that art feeds art: photography feeds sketching...
My father recently took a course at the local cooperative extension on Chinese Medicinal Herb Production in the United States. In this talk, he learned about the different herbs that could be grown for sale...