New things, new excitement

It is Friday, May 24th, and tomorrow is my first outdoor art festival. Tonight is going to be filled with preparations, putting all my supplies together, last-minute card prints, and a general flurry of activity. This past week has been filled with thoughts about the...

Like vs Love (aka Priorities)

Confession time: I like costumes. All types of costumes, really. Theater, historical, Halloween (though I have issue with the Halloween costume industry, but that’s another post entirely). I like dressing up. In the right situations, I enjoy being someone else for the...

My Kingdom for a Tent?

One of the last things you want to do when it’s a blustery day in the mid-40s is to go outside and set up a 10×10 foot canopy tent. And yet… And yet that’s what I found myself doing several weekends ago. A while back, shortly after my birthday, I took the...

Saga of a Phone

In the first half of the first decade of this particular millennium (translation: the early- to mid-2000s), people were acquiring a piece of technology that I was shunning: The Cell Phone. I didn’t want one. I didn’t see the use for one. I was living at home, and...