We rarely stay directly in the city we are visiting and our trip to Chicago is no different.  You can usually save a couple hundred and get reasonable accommodations by staying in a nearby town.  We picked a...

The discussion this week from Love Art, Happy Life is on being an artist and having confidence in yourself as an artist.  I feel like this is applicable to much more than art though, but since this has turned...

A.D. and I have a weird little habit:  We collect the state magnets for each state we travel and keep them on the refrigerator.  It functions as a bit of fun as well as a reminder of where we need to travel...

I missed my deadline, again!  Kicker is that I completed my Marlene Dumas inspired work last weekend and never wrote about it.  Bad blogger. Marlene Dumas So this weeks inspiration from Love Art, Happy Life...

In October of 2014 I went with my parents to an AMBA (Annual Multiphasic Blood Analysis) Wellness Event to take part in the yearly blood screening.  These clinics are held once per year, usually put on by...

So. Turns out that not all paper is watercolor friendly, no matter the poundage.  I did not know this when I bought the art journal I started to transform into my very own Necronomicon.  I think I may have...

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...

Traveling through Pennsylvania this past spring, A.D. and I stopped outside of Lewisburg for breakfast on the way back home from one of his expeditions.  The Country Cupboard was recommended to us for the...