I’m not going to lie, I am vaguely daunted by the concept of the Night Gaunt and am thinking of doing something radically different medium-wise to convey these creatures. Like many of Lovecraft’s...
Summer is blasting along at warp speed and with the scorching temperatures, come a crop of hot peppers. Every year I tell myself I am going to make jalapeno poppers from scratch, and every year I don’t...
This week’s choice on Journal 52 was between ‘lunacy’ and ‘full moon’. I chose lunacy. That’s not a sentence you write on the daily. Anywho, I looked through the other...
Mother’s Day can be challenging. My mom sent me a picture a few weeks ago and asked me to create something similar, and I thought, ‘there is no way, that takes a technique I don’t have...
This past year my last living grandparent moved on and it was the first time I took an active role in the sorting of a life. I guess it is a rite of passage in some ways, as it makes you feel different...
The last time we traveled together, we left off with the American side of the Soo. The next morning we awoke bright and early and headed to Canada. It was a relatively easy border crossing and we made our...
Today’s adventure is a blend of two earlier posts, my 2016 food goals and one on being a tourist in your own town. The plan was to hit the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, see the sponsored Rockwell Alley...
The weather this year has thus far been unpredictable and varied. Our late Winter and early Spring has consisted of a mix of 70F days and 20F days, often within 24 hours of each other. It hasn’t done...