the good kind of crazy

Came across this today and not for the first time in my life I wanted to be a man.  Don’t be alarmed, I love being a woman.  I also know that women have the superpowers of bearing children, producing milk, being smarter, talking a lot, picking out a bargain from across a crowded store, asking [...]

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brilliance

I have featured Elin Thomas here before.  Today I’m devoting an entire post to this gal’s brilliance.  She is an artist and jewelry maker from the UK.  I’m head over heels in love with her work.  More than likely because she utilizes my most favorite materials and processes and colors.  What she does with those things leave [...]

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conflict

you can’t make it through life without experiencing some conflict.  the question becomes are you going to use the friction that results from conflict to grind one another into dust, or to polish one another more brightly?  and that’s all i’m going to say about that.

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made. make.

Polaroid Birthday card made for me by Super Jen.  She takes some pretty incredible Polaroid shots.  I love the way her shadow is in there with those rockin’ chairs.  Not rocking chairs people – Rockin’ Chairs!  You know -  those Sick chairs!  Not sick, like sick throwing up, but Sick!!  Or as Marshall and his friends [...]

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really, does it always have to have a title?

Hi, it’s me.  I just lived through another birthday.  Some years you just don’t want to count it.  Last year I was all like “woo hoo take that old age – i’m all sassy and proud!”  This year it’s more like “Crap, another birthday!”   Lucky for me I was not allowed to drown my sorrows all by my lonesome.  We [...]

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The gift of time.

A couple of weeks ago before school started back up this boy and I found ourselves home alone.  I had plenty of the usual chores that needed to be done, but instead I asked him if he wanted to go for a bike ride with me.  So that’s just what we did.  A bike ride [...]

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