Michelangelo is famous for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but as an artist, the medium he truly loved to work in was not…
I had the pleasure this past week of attending a fundraiser for WAYS, Western Ontario Youth Services. It was a brilliant idea to copy the…
Every once in a while you need to go back to the proverbial drawing board — meaning, re-evaluate your best laid plans. Sometimes a business…
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…
Assuming you are not already endowed with brilliant natural artistic talent in music or the arts, what medium would you choose if you could? Fill…
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…
I saw a Facebook post this week of Albert Einstein’s quote, “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” That got me to wondering who else has a…
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…