This is for Dan and Liliana, whom I’ve been enjoying this week, in a different sort of traveling way. We’re in the middle of cactus (“If you touch them, you will BLEED, Mama!”) and mountain-high rock formations and clear, starry skies, and although Dan has work-related engagements, we’ve sneaked a little time to ourselves. This […]
Ukrainian History in Sand
When Dan and I heard about this winning performance by Kseniya Simonova on Ukraine’s Got Talent, we had to see it. Our little girl is from the Ukraine, and to think that an artist could use sand to tell the story of the German’s WWII invasion into the Ukraine (called the Great Patriotic War in […]
If You Could Cook Up a Pot of Sin, This Is What It Would Look Like
Hailing from a ranch in northern Oklahoma, Ree Drummond is a city girl turned rancher’s wife/mother/cook/comic. Have you seen her hilarious (and scrumptious website)? If not, where have you been? It’s time, folks. Enter here to see for yourself. If you get lost–hello? hello?–come back…please come back. This is what I’m talking about. Did you […]
Percolating
It’s no mistake that several of my posts in the last week have been about waiting and playing. Can you tell ideas are percolating? It’s true. They have to simmer a while before I can put an outline down…then put pen to paper (or fingers to the keyboard). I’m still stuck on bits of that […]
Slow Down: Adult At Play
Try this on for size. Carl Honore’s article “In Praise of Slow Thinking” (Huffington Post, October 23, 2009). Google allows their employees to devote 20 percent of their time to personal projects. For this reason: “Slow Thinking is intuitive, woolly and creative. It is what we do when the pressure is off, and there is […]