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Photo essay: Antique Air Show, Part 1
The title of poet of the skies could easily be given to French pilot Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry. The author of the fantastical story The Little […]
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York Mystery Plays: Medieval meets modern
“Beginning, middle and end I with my word have wrought.” from The Plasterer’s Play: The Creation of the World to the Fifth Day (performed in […]
Photo essay: St. Demetrios, Seattle
This evening I am sitting in a tiny cafe with high ceilings as a lively local Greek band, Dromeno, serenades an enthusiastic double circle of […]
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Getting un-stalled, Part 2: Let it Flow, art is a process
Continued from Part 1… For at least two weeks, no ideas I came up with were getting finished, and nothing was being published. What was […]
Getting un-stalled, Part 1: Lots of Ideas, publishing nothing
What happens when you are working on a project and you hit a wall? Call it an impasse, writer’s block, getting stalled…. call it what you […]
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Damascene Jewelry from Toledo
You know how sometimes a piece of jewelry catches your eye immediately? Okay, well that happens for me plenty (learning jewelry making kinda ramped this up […]
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My Camino, at home
Two years ago I kept a poetry blog for the summer. My life at the time had begun to feel like a pilgrimage, with many […]
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Sliver Moons and the melancholy joy of summer
Here we are smack in the middle of summer and I keep hearing about autumn just around the corner and getting ready for back to […]
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A pair of Patron Saints for creative entrepreneurs and family life
Through Alençon lace and watches, a family of saints was established. Louis and Zélie were an entrepreneurial couple raising a bunch of girls in the middle of […]