This week’s challenge word on the Illustration Friday website is “burning”. At 2 AM on July 2, 1951, Pansy Carpenter smelled something burning. She checked on the finicky water pump in her apartment building’s basement, since it had a tendency to overheat. Concerned for the safety of her tenants, she turned the pump off and …
This week’s challenge word on the Illustration Friday website is “afterwards”. “Good morning, Wally. Good morning, Beaver. Your father is eating first. I’ll make your breakfast after Ward’s.”
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “spent”. (This is one of two illustrations I did for this topic. HERE is the other.) “If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.” Will Rogers
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “spent”. (This is one of two illustrations I did for this topic. HERE is the other.) “I once spent a year in Philadelphia. I think it was on a Sunday.” W. C. Fields
This week’s challenge word on Illustration Friday is “spooky”. (This is the third illustration I’ve done for this week’s word. HERE is the first and HERE is the second.) After a failed attempt at becoming an opera singer in the style of Paul Robeson, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins settled on playing piano and singing standard blues. …
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “spooky”. (This is the second entry for this topic. Click HERE for entry number one and HERE for entry number three.) Careful observation of this family has revealed the members to be creepy, kooky and mysterious. Not to mention spooky. The conclusion is they are all together ooky.
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “spooky”. (This is the first of three entries for this topic. Click HERE for the second entry and HERE for the third.) Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost was not nearly as popular as his more famous cousin Casper. I think I can understand why.
The Illustration Friday challenge word this week is “transportation”. In 2001, after a buzz of preliminary publicity, a two-wheeled, self-balancing electric vehicle was introduced to the public. It was called the Segway. By 2006, approximately 23,500 had been sold. In December 2009, British billionaire Jimi Heselden bought the company Segway Inc. On September 26, 2010, …
After a full week of the draining drudgery of elementary school, there was nothing I liked better than spending Saturday afternoon at a movie matinee. I’d call up a bunch of friends from school and we’d hastily make plans to meet at the nearby Leo Theater or the Orleans, which was a little farther away. …
You know those time-lapse scenes in movies from your parents’ youth? The ones that show a montage of events beginning with a spinning newspaper hurtling towards the camera, stopping to display a significant headline splashed across the front page in big, attention-getting letters? How quaint and dated they seemed. Remember the boy on the street …
