A French professor I once had was born and raised in France. He was a charming and loquacious soul who liked to tell stories about…
It really does not matter what the source of your frustration is, being frustrated takes an incredible amount of energy. Frustration rarely ever helps to…
In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, the monster in the story is never actually given a name. Frankenstein is the name of the scientist whose obsession…
Last June, I accompanied my sister to Pittsburg to attend the woodturning exhibition in which she was participating. See https://blog.contentmentisforcows.com/?p=229 While there, I realized just how…
How to visit museum might seem like an odd instruction — you just go, right? Sure, just walk in and start looking around… Recently, I…
“What is Art?” My standard answer to that old question is, “Art is what looks back at you.” It is my way of saying art…
In her 2011 autobiography Bossypants, Tina Fey wrote that the rules for creating an improvised skit in front of an audience would make great rules…
I follow Seth Godin’s blog –a useful and contemplative commentary on building a brand, marketing and whatever else he deems worthy. This past week he…
Why do people create things? Why do we make music, paintings, gardens, woodturnings, and write novels and comics and blogs, and anything else you can…
As one collector told me, my sister is a ‘rock star’ in the world of woodturning. I recently accompanied her (www.marilyncampbell.ca) to Pittsburgh for the…