Since my kids are not traveling – other than to get home – for the holiday weekend, we are having a huge family gathering tonight at my house. All six kids will be here. Susan will be bringing her roommate, Margie. Ben is bringing his girlfriend, Liz. The kids’ dad is bring his girlfriend, Regina,… Continue reading Holiday Weekend
How far do you push others to do what you think is “the right thing?” You may think this is a huge ethics question. It can be, that is for sure. Not this time, though. This time it is all about family. My ex’s mother was admitted to a hospital earlier this week for congestive… Continue reading How Far Do You Push?
I belong to a group of artists – The Latest Trends in Mixed Media – and monthly we have been doing either a charm or pin challenge and swap. This month the swap was beading. I carefully considered all the different beads I have on hand. I didn’t have the time or money to go… Continue reading Beading
No, Michelle Ward and the GPP Street Team are not casting a new movie. But the Street Team is casting paper into all kinds of things. I missed, or haven’t yet caught up with Crusades 18 & 19 but will get back to them eventually as I do have all the items gathered to do… Continue reading Crusade 20 – Casting Call
I turned on the television after running around this evening to see that the networks were not interrupting their evening news to cover the Obama rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but the cable news networks were running breaking news. The cable news networks were saying that John Edwards, the very same John Edwards that both… Continue reading Edwards Endorses Obama
I know I saw this on a message board recently but cannot remember, for the life of me, where it was. Anyway, the concept just crossed my mind again as I was introducing myself to a new working for the company I do contract work for. When you meet someone new, how do you introduce,… Continue reading How do you describe yourself?
I love the flowers as they bloom and the vibrant colors they bring to the road side and yards around my area but it was coming down the hill yesterday that I was taken by the vibrant and many shades of green there are in spring. There were the ever dark greens of the pines… Continue reading The Color of the Spring is Green
I am taking part – although I seem to be behind as usually – in an online workshop on photo manipulation. While most will think of this as a digital form of art, we are doing a bit of digital and actual manipulation in the workshop. My first attempt was with an image I took… Continue reading Photo Manipulation
I live in New York state. Here we are allowed to vote in school elections. The only districts exempt from these laws are those known as The Big 5 – those districts in the five largest cities in the state. I believe the Big 5 still vote for board of education members but not on… Continue reading Do you vote?
Many years ago I went through a stage where I stopped all magazine subscriptions. I would occasionally buy an art magazine – stamping, beading, creating – but decided that the magazines themselves would not be coming to my house. The environmentalist in me won out until I started qualifying for free magazines of different types. … Continue reading I am a Tear File Junky
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