Hello Livejournal Friends!

Although I've loved writing on this blog (and will still post here from time to time) for now another blog is occupying my bandwidth, so to speak.

I've taken up the challenge of sketching something every day and writing about it.  I'm hoping that the combination of images and ideas will provide something for everyone, and ( Read more... )

Printing large documents, especially in color, takes time.  I like to allow 20 minutes or so, and I tell customers to go and come back later.  They are baffled by the idea that their printing is not instantaneous.  Here are some of my favorite answers as to why not ( Read more... )

Seconds ago a student came into our office saying she found an iphone in the women's room and called the last person it texted to tell them she was leaving it with us ( Read more... )

A short post as I am writing from my new iphone! Get excited. I have not activated it yet, but there seems to be wireless here at the Zero Arrow. Yes, i am at the world famous Club Oberon. More on that later. Only trouble so far is that underscores are not on the keyboard, so I had to find my username and copy/paste it! Still, I seem to have ( Read more... )

Tonight and one night only, Berklee College of Music's first opera "Holy Ghosts" (costumed by yours truly!)

Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 8:15 p.m.
Berklee Performance Center
136 Mass Avenue, Boston

The world premiere of an original opera based on the play by Romulus Linney. Music by Larry Bell, libretto by Linney and Andrea Olmstead. Bell conducts ( Read more... )

My grandmother passed away this afternoon, having lingered for a week in a coma after a sudden respiratory attack.
She was 70 years old and otherwise in excellent health.
She had no fear of death... she was a parent to me... I cannot begin to know how to mourn her, or to what extent I may.
But I miss her.

I don't usually like to pontificate on weighty topics out loud, since my compulsive tendency to attempt full sentences either makes me trip up over my words or else say something that sounds terribly prophetic and pretentious. Nor do I commit them to print, since that is anathema to the comical essay (my favorite form ( Read more... )

Chop Chop: I'm considering bobbing my hair. Thoughts?

Pirates: Raised as I was on the North Shore, I am partial to pirates and other sea-faring folk. Love me some shanties, stories about the West Indies, and tales of haunted captain's houses.
However I recently found YA author John Green's brilliant answer to that age-old question: "Pirates or ( Read more... )

I took an early lunch because I had an important errand to run that involved bolting to the bank on Federal St ( Read more... )

Ready? In no particular order...

- I'm drawing the cover for the Ye Olde Playhouse of Pain showcase program. I set myself the difficult task of foreshortening something. Foreshortening is haaard I've discovered I can do very well in two hours what a true artist can do very well in 20 minutes...but it does get done. Plus, I love art & crafts by ( Read more... )