As I tottered around the Palatial Horvath Estate making preparations to confront Tropical Storm Sandy a/k/a Hurricane Sandy a/k/a “The Storm Of The Century” a/k/a FRANKENSTORM, I thought about labels. What if the storm hadn’t been called anything at all? What if all the weather forecasters had said was “It’s going to rain more than […]
Re-Imagining
October 9, 2012 by
I don’t have much time to do it these days, but I love building miniature scenes. Not children’s dollhouses so much, but true little settings or shadowboxes. The photo to the left is from a shadowbox I have in a curio cabinet. One thing I love about miniatures is the way they make your imagination […]
Fear
July 31, 2012 by
Sometimes I find myself totally paralyzed by fear. It comes from many sources and for many reasons. Usually it’s fear of failure or a fear of my own inadequacy in a particular situation. Sometimes it’s fear of the future or fear of the consequences of my own actions. Sometimes it’s fear of change or the […]
Suddenly
July 5, 2012 by
I hate – absolutely HATE – when I know what I want to do, I know what I need to do, I even know HOW to go about doing what I want and need to do, and yet…and yet…I don’t do it. For example. I know that I need to eat better. I know that […]
Lazy? Really? Well, Maybe…
June 24, 2012 by
A few weeks ago, I got one of those annoying memes* that spreads around Facebook like kudzu. In this one you were supposed to look at a word-cloud and pick out the first four words you saw. The first four words you saw are what describe you the best. I picked out the words “compassionate”, […]
What I Learned In German Class
June 19, 2012 by
You might believe this post is a little self-evident. After all, what I learned in German class should be, um, German. And yes, it’s true. I did learn some helpful German phrases, such as Wo ist die Toilette? (where is the toilet?) But I also learned a lesson which has served me well over the […]
