Play the Cheese or Font Game

Here’s a fun little diversion for those of you who are mightily drawn to cheese and/or fonts. Play the Cheese or Font Game – it’s quite the challenge!
You are given the name of a cheese or font, and you have to decide which one it is. Sound easy? Guess again! The game seems to have [...]

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Work as Love

Work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran “On Work” from The Prophet
After working intensely on one of my major jobs [...]

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Winged Migration – A Spectacular Visual Treat

This movie, released in 2003, is one of the most spectacular I have seen. There is almost no narration, there are occasional notes on the bottom of the screen indicating the type of bird and the location and distance it flies during migration, and the most incredible music created just for the film. Not to [...]

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Honored to Receive the Honest Scrap Award

I recently found I was chosen for an award by a fellow blogger, The Battered Trunk.
I readily found what I, as a new recipient, needed to do, but was unsure exactly what the award was about. A little online delving, and I found the following definition of the Honest Scrap Award on Buddhist Minister Rev. [...]

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Where the Wild Things Are

Last week in the movies I saw the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are and was all but jumping up and down in my seat – can I wait!!! I came across it again today while online, and for those who have not seen it – I just had to share.
I’m assuming everyone has [...]

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Outfoxing Your Reluctant Artist – 2

Stalled? Change your venue!
I prefer the word stalled to blocked, because sooner or later we always get going, and blocked is so …. well, final. One of the things I have found to work when I am feeling stalled is so simple it sounds like the obvious – do what you’re doing someplace else. If [...]

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NJ SCBWI June Conference – A Few Thoughts

The June 2009 Conference was, once again, spectacular. There was an amazing group of agents, editors, illustrators, authors, and art directors waiting to critique, guide, challenge and enlighten the 240 participants. And there was plenty of talent on the attendee side as well. Both new and familiar faces were present to submit manuscripts and illustrations, [...]

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Kathy Temean Exhibits in PA

Kathy Temean is an outstanding illustrator whose work is being featured the entire month of June in a one-woman show at the Newtown Public Library in Newtown Square, PA.

While you can view Kathy’s work online at her web site, seeing the color and texture of her work in person, as is so with any artist, [...]

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