“Big Crayons”

I was invited this week to write an article for the website, 5 Minutes For Mom. It’s a really fun website designed for busy moms to get the most out of their time online. The website’s creators, Susan and Janice, are twin sisters and work-at-home moms who have a kindred passion for all [...]

My new digital SLR Nikon D40X is here! And what fun we’ve been having. I have taken so many photos in the past few days, I haven’t even had the time yet to look at them all. I came home Wednesday from work to a HUGE box. And of course, as I started taking [...]

There’s a really interesting exhibit at the Williams College Museum in Massachusetts called American Art and Early Film. The premise behind the exhibit is to “to show how artists and audiences of that period grappled with the new visual technology.” The exhibit displays paintings from the 1880’s and 90’s juxtoposed to early motion [...]

<>Let’s see…sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt.
Mixed with stock, and boiled in the animal’s stomach for approximately an hour.
Hmmm…for some reason, this description of the Scottish delicacy known as “Haggis” was not making me hungry.
Thus was my sojourn into Edinburgh…

Looking for decorations for your kids’ rooms? Try hanging up photographs of pages from their favorite books. Unlike just framing cut-out pages from a book, taking pictures allows you to focus on part of an image and blow it up to whatever size you like (and you don’t wreck the book!). [...]