This week’s inspiration at the Inspire Me Thursday website is “handmade holidays”. I have been creating a holiday card every year for almost thirty years. Here is my card for this year. Hey Everyone! My annual compilation of eclectic Christmas music is now available! That’s right! 23 songs (and a bonus track) plus a custom color cover …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “crunchy”. “Um, are mashed potatoes supposed to be crunchy? ” “They are when we don’t remove the bones.” Hey Everyone! My annual compilation of eclectic Christmas music is now available! That’s right! 23 songs (and a bonus track) plus a custom color cover in PDF format to print, …
Dora Gerson was a singer and silent film actress in Berlin, Germany in the early 1920s. She was performing in an ensemble troupe when she met film director Veit Harlan. They married in 1922 and divorced in 1924. Harlan would eventually direct anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda films on orders of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. In …
1965 was a tumultuous time. The country was still healing from the wounds brought on by a presidential assassination. Alabama state troopers clashed with civil right activists in Selma. The first wave of US Armed Forces was being deployed to the jungles of Viet Nam. In 1965, I fought a demon of my own. My …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge is “entangled”. Margie didn’t want to get entangled in the madness of Christmas shopping. So, this year, everyone got a homemade gift. Hey Everyone! My annual compilation of eclectic Christmas music is now available! That’s right! 23 songs (and a bonus track) plus a custom color cover in PDF format …
The current Monday Artday challenge is “feast”. A feast means something different to different people.
The current Monday Artday challenge is “gratitude”. Curt Flood spent most of his career as a center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals. He led the National League in putouts four times. He won seven consecutive Gold Glove Awards. He also batted over .300 six times, and led the NL in hits in 1964. He retired …
This week’s challenge on Illustration Friday is “music”. “I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” — Elvis Presley
The inspirational word this week on Inspire Me Thursday is “label”. Someday, maybe I’ll go into business with my mother-in-law.
Hope Summers made her Hollywood debut at the age of fifty, beginning a career of playing essentially the same character. Hope was the older, genteel neighbor in countless Westerns, sitcoms and medical shows in the early days of television. She was featured as Hattie Denton, the friendly and helpful proprietor of the North Fork general store, …
