Knock knock.  Who’s there?   Everyone knows how this goes.  It’s one of the first kinds of jokes children learn, and it seems like...

        Yesterday, May 25, was a highly significant day.  First of all, May 25 is Towel Day, celebrated around the world with Vogon poetr...

        Today I printed the piece I began carving at my last show.  It’s based on a photograph I took on a trip to Paris fifteen years ag...

        It’s one of those dull rainy days here.  Thank goodness, because we’ve been in desperate need of the rain, but nevertheless it’s m...

        Anton Chekhov (Russia, 1860-1904) famously wrote, “ If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in...

        To my delight, chickadees have been busy at my birdhouse again, and it looks like the robin’s nest in the hawthorn will be occupie...

        Today’s fantasy poem is by Alfred Noyes of “ The Highwayman ” fame.  It’s not a particularly good poem, I’m afraid; it’s terribly Vi...

        Today I finished the block I worked on at my open studio show this past weekend.  I didn’t know what people would make of the de...

        Yesterday I was at P and T’s school hanging mounted and decorated poems the seventh graders had written, and today I’ll be return...