Mind Flush

Your life will be richer for having seen this, I guarantee it.

My father turns 70 today. He's been awesome for at least 36 of those years (I can't vouch for the ones before I showed up, although ...

This week Liza and I are focusing on learning about art, so I checked some books out from the library to expand our repertoire of craft tech...

Today Liza and I made the trek across the Delaware to see the aquarium in Camden, NJ. We spent some quality time petting the sharks ... .....

Earlier this week Liza and I went with my parents to Longwood Gardens , a place she's been before but never remembers from one visit to...

Certain people have been attempting to guilt-trip me into posting on the blog, despite me having nothing entertaining to say. Here are pote...

As many of you know, my husband and I lived and worked in Japan in the late 1990s. Our role was to act as liaisons between the Japanese an...

Okay, so the groundhog may be under the impression that we're in for six more weeks of winter, but some of the crocus in my front yard ...

Liza and I went over to the Cleveland Museum of Art today, and we made the most astounding find ... CMA has a piece by Damien Hirst on loan ...

"Of course I don't want syrup. These pancakes have a great deal of butter on them. Pancakes should have butter OR syrup, not both...

You can either pierce the shawl or wear it threaded through like a backpack strap, although most of the time you see them displayed pierced ...

My very handsome and talented father has been carving for decades - actually, we can actually measure it in fractions of a century at this p...

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Hummingbird-Nest-Cam We got to see the baby! And you can hear the mother peeping and buzzing when she flies! ...

One more post from way back when - a recounting of my adventures getting (the first of three) lasik surgery to correct my hideously bad eyes...

Found this one still online at the cooking forum I used to haunt back in the day ("the day" being 1998 and 1999, while I was livin...

We're going through some totes full of old mementos, and I found an e-mail correspondence I had with the owner of the company I worked f...

L: Mom, can two girls get married? Me: Depends on where you live, sweetie. L: What do you mean? Me: Remember how we talked about how peopl...

It took about three months of frequent work, 1.5 kilometers of yarn, and about 3,000 beads, but the Shawl of Insanity is finished! More pics...

(Liza drew the pictures, did the title page, and narrated the story; I wrote down what she told me so it didn't take 6 months to complet...