• Swimming through the hardest winter…

    Swimming has always been my happy place, but it took a bleak pandemic winter to remind me just how much. In early March, 2020, hopeful that the Coronavirus pandemic would be a short-lived phenomenon, my wife and I hunkered down and began sewing masks for our friends who are in health care professions. A month …

  • Creative gifts from my mother…

    My mother did not think she was creative, but she was.

  • Techno-geek excitement, three

    In Thursday’s mail arrived the latest installment of experiments from the 3-D printing factory. I wasn’t expecting them this soon! I wanted to post about them before I head off for a ten day adventure in Italy. [I know—poor, poor me!] It will be a little while before I can get into the studio with …

  • Ceramic vessels and jewelry—process, tedium and “fussiness”

    I don’t know why it is, but I’ve always been drawn to creative media that have complex processes, with many steps to follow. When in college, I majored in printmaking and ceramics. I remember my first printmaking course—taken over a six week summer term—wherein we learned a new printmaking medium/process each week. And sometimes they …