I’ve been on a bit of an architecture kick, perhaps as a reaction to all those imaginary creatures.  One recent piece is a real bui...

        Have you ever wanted your own hobbit-hole?  Of course you have, for that, as Tolkien says, means comfort.  And now you can - or a...

        This weekend I will be at Roslindale Open Studios , and everyone is invited!  I have spent the last two days trying to restock ca...

        Here are some quirky bits of SFF from Austrian graphic artist Moriz Jung (1885-1915).  At some point I’d like to share some of hi...

        As of this morning 68% of my Kickstarter rewards are delivered or consigned to the post.  I’ve been going to the post office ever...

        October 10 is National Walk to a Park Day (not to be confused with National Take a Walk In a Park Day on March 30).  The point ...

        William Kentridge (South Africa, b. 1955) is one of South Africa’s biggest-name artists, famous for prints, drawings, and animate...

        September 24 was National Punctuation Day, in honor of which this month’s word refers to a very strange and particular sort of qu...

        I inherited from the respectable middle-class packrats among my ancestors a 10 volume set of Chambers’s Encyclopaedia: A Dictiona...