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...
Journal 52’s prompts this week were pretty easy for me to visualize. When I read ‘What Lies Beneath’ and ‘Emerge’, I immediately knew I was going to draw about what lies beneath...
I love board games! I never thought I would be a board gamer and spent most of my life actively avoiding situations in which board games would be involved. I did have a brief stint with Magic in my early...
This weeks prompt for Journal 52 reflects on sunshine and rain. I found this amusing when I read it as this morning I had done something very out of character for me: I gardened in the rain. Who does that...
Keep is one of my new favorite apps. It will be one of yours soon too! I have searched and searched for a note taking app and tried many that are good and work for others such as Evernote, but didn’t...
This past weekend A.D., Tony Curado and I took a little road trip to Letchworth State Park. They go for the big landscape shots and I got out my macro lens and did my best to capture some of the fresh spring...
On our recent trip to Acadia, I wanted a souvenir. Not one that would be ordinary though. One that I could use, something functional. I found a hand-bound leather journal and my expectations soared. It is...
There is a much larger story surrounding my endeavor to make homemade tomato paste. This story will be told at a later date. Today, I will just share my triumph of will and patience that led to this culinary...