illustration

I am not one known for my godliness. Church makes me itch, I’ve been a doubter from way back before I knew there were such things, and, while I’ve been exposed to big, honking chunks of it thanks to eight years of Catholic school, I’ve never read the Bible all the way through. Those “begats,” [...]

Posted in: The Useful Ones

I have not yet got the hang of this Illustration Friday thing. Apparently, you IMMEDIATELY draw the topic when it’s announced on Friday, then upload as soon as possible so that everyone sees your thumbnail first. (Non-competitive and non-judgmental, my Aunt Fanny….) So it is too late to submit my entry under last week’s topic, [...]

Posted in: The Quotidian Ones

We’re over the hump on hump day, but those Project Runway/Life Lessons just keep on comin‘… Thanks to all my Wednesday-only readers who have found me via Google, Yahoo!, Technorati and MSN searches. Just so you know, what I know about fashion would fit in my bra, which, were it to be used for the [...]

Posted in: The Silly Ones

In which we continue to draw Life Lessons from this season’s surprise source of integral wisdom (and ripping-good reality TV), “Project Runway.” Lesson 10: There’s No Room for Drama on a Deadline In Episode 4, the designers had to go from working solo to a cluster fuck collaborating in teams! Of three designers each. Mon [...]

Posted in: The Silly Ones

A year, no, probably closer to two years ago, I was at The Art Store (no, seriously, it’s called “The Art Store”) buying sumpin’ or other, when I saw the sign on the locked glass case: “Koh-i-noor, 50% off.” Now, if art stores (like computer stores and office supply stores) are to me as hardware [...]

Posted in: The Personal Ones