My attempt to photograph the lunar eclipse. It's not real crisp (but the night was) probably due to the fact that I was using the Subaru...

NY Times article about the perfume market and the move away from artificial scents, scent fatigue and going scentless. An interesting arti...

On Tuesday night I attended my very first political caucus. I totally understand the fever downriver in Iowa. It was a blast. As in caucuses...

It has been five months since my dad died. I was not certain. I had to count on my fingers to figure it out. Sometimes it feels like such a ...

WoodBird, 2008, encaustic on driftwood, 6" x 2" x 30" Another piece working with bird imagery - albeit in a very abstract man...

Heron, 2008, encaustic on driftwood, 12" x 4" x 28", views of both sides of sculpture The Flock, 2008, encaustic on paper, ap...

Last night and tonight I worked on making some paint for a painting I want to do. The painting is of some exotic birds - unreal birds. I nee...

Okay, I admit it. I was (am) a fan of Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter. I know he was a geek, but he was such an entertaining geek. I spent ...

Called my mother last night right before we went to the party. Wanted to wish her happy new year and to let her know that I found out it wou...

Actually it is new year's day, but I have not gone to bed yet. Abelisto and I went to a progressive party. I had never heard of progress...

Okay. I've been busy, or maybe just lazy. At least lazy with this blog. Time to get back into then habit of writing here. Now for a quic...

The last two weeks have been tough in many ways. Over Thanksgiving we went to Indiana. My brothers and I went through my father's garage...

I have found an economist I kinda like... Paul Krugman writes about the politics and economics of inequality in America and other topics. *...

Danielle - if you are reading this - this is the work I want to do... But no one in Winona would pay anyone to do it. Just kidding - or at ...

There is nothing wrong with reading fiction. There have been books - novels - that have changed my life, made me stronger and more determine...

This weekend Abelisto and I went beachcombing. We like to go up and down the Mississippi and gather interesting debris (natural and man-mad...

Spent the weekend unable to log on to the internet. Since we had the party on Saturday night and the benefit on Sunday there was not a block...

I have spent a couple days now, on and off, looking for a file. The problem is I have three computers (maybe four - I cannot remember when I...

Last Thursday I had a reading of some of my stories at the local arts center. I was asked to read for 30 - 45 minutes, but brought enough ma...

This weekend has been fairly productive. Not with art, but with all the other crap that one has to do to keep things going. Made it to the f...