Merry Christmas Morning! I gave myself an early present to go with some items I put on my wish list and bought a Craftsy course on sketching landscapes in pen, ink and watercolor.  I must say that I’m...

Looking back on this summer, I realized I left off halfway through my story of the Great Lakes Road Trip and the last stop we talked about was way back in Milwaukee!  Well, we headed out of Milwaukee bright...

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...

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 garden like mad.  Veggies and flowers.  They need a lot of nutrients and I am not a fan of blue or green fertilizers.  It is never a miracle that things grow, just curious that they get as big as they do...

Continuing in my tour of the Lovecraftian universe, I have added another page to the journal! Cthulhu is likely the most popular and well-known of the Lovecraftian creatures and is quite popular in current...

I remember a time in my late teens when I was as idealistic as I was naive and everything I did moved toward the most simple life possible.  There are parts of me that continue to yearn for this misty...

This week’s journal entry was first introduced in HPL’s, The Shadow Out of Time, and is the Great Race of Yith. Check out the awesome cover art from the first publication in Astounding Stories!  I...