Circa 1967 or so, my mother was the original inventor of the mute button. She loved her television shows but detested the advertisements. She would…
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…
Practice might not make anything perfect but it does make most things easier. Practice will increase your comfort level with just about any activity. Practice…
The phrase “late bloomer” usually refers to children whose physical development lags their peers. The term is also used to refer to adults who come…
A few months back, I wrote about erasures as a metaphor for making life changes. ( Life’s Erasures ) Because every once in a while we all…
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…
It is tempting to say Salvador Dali’s quote, “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it,” is perfect. But perfection is only a concept,…
Parkinson’s “Law of Expanding Work” states, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”. So true. Give someone two…