Wanderlust & Armchair Travel

Wanderlust – noun, a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about.   It’s official… I’ve come down with a bad case of wanderlust… I realized recently that it’s been over a year since my last trip out of the country. The picture above is from that trip last year to the Amalfi Coast in [...]

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My Changing Perspective on Food

Lately I have been a big consumer of food content – not so much food itself as writing online and offline about food (thankfully for my waistline!), including a dip into the world of online food blogging. Over the last few months: I’ve seen Food, Inc.as a part of Dallas’ AFI Film Festival, and I’ve read a number of books on the subject including Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver and In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan.

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Summer Garden

Here’s some pictures I took over the weekend of my backyard… All the work put in last spring, is definitely starting to pay off!

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Good Morning?

Where oh where did my morning go? I had grand plans of getting up early and getting some writing done. I have plenty of great things to write about. I’ve been busy even though I haven’t been writing about it, but this morning I woke up with an impending sense of disorganization and a feeling that my day was spiraling out of control already…

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Robert Sabuda – “Prince of Pop-Ups”

Yesterday, the Dallas Museum of Arthosted famed pop-up book creator Robert Sabuda at the Arts & Letters Livelecture series.  While in north Texas, Sabuda also visited the National Center for Childrens’ Illustrated Literature (NCCIL) in Abilene, Texas where he opened an exhibition called Wizards of Pop-Up: Sabuda and Reinhartwhich runs through 9/19/09. He spoke for approximately 45 minutes [...]

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