Bonjour! Où est le chocolat?

There are a mere six days until Jen and I travel to Paris where, instead of filling up on Thanksgiving turkey and cranberry sauce until we pass out, we will be gorging on wine, cheese and le chocolat. Until we pass out. The anticipation is overwhelming, as the only time I’ve visited Paris was for [...]

The highlight of my day.

Today was a series of small disappointments, remedied with one giant win. First, the disappointments: The Immortals.  Words cannot describe how much I wanted to love this film, given my adoration for Greek mythology, the film The Fall by the same director Tarsem, and the man-candy of the film 300 by the same producers. Sadly, as [...]

Experimentation and experience points.

If you’ve ever played games like The Sims or World of Warcraft (or, if you want to go old school, Dungeons & Dragons), you understand the concept of experience points. I previously mentioned it supposedly takes 10,000 hours to master any given skill. What can be misleading is that in The Sims* you can rack up [...]

More good fortune(s).

I really need to do something about the ventilation in my wannabe studio before I end up brain-damaged. Anyway, here are two new additions to my slowly growing ‘fortune cookie’ collection. Click to zoom, be forewarned that my photography skills are lacking this evening. I blame CFL lighting and the beeswax/damar high. And I blame [...]

You will need to relax today.

This may be called a perfect weekend. It started Friday evening, with an after-work happy hour with two beloved friends. We had agreed that the ‘no alcohol in November’ addition to my patience list was going to have to be modified with ‘except on Fridays.’ I know I’ve mentioned this before, but there is something wonderful to [...]

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I finally got around to updating my About page, and like it enough that I thought I’d let it do double-duty as today’s post. Plus I’m spent. Phew.  So here goes… I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy [...]

The inward journey

I have been fortunate enough to participate this year in a Pacifica Graduate Institute program called Engaged Humanities and the Creative Life. To put it mildly, it has been mind-blowing. For the final assignment of one of our first classes, we were asked to produce a creative work and write a statement.  This is what [...]