Trails Across Continents

Today is Thanksgiving. It's been a really nice day. Marco and I were REALLY lazy all morning. Ahhhhh... I never get a chance to be lazy ...

The Art Crawl went surprisingly well! I made enough money this weekend to pay my rent for the whole month! This morning I was walking to wor...

I'm typing in my studio right now. It's sunday. This weekend is the art crawl, so I've been here for three days with the door op...

This is the kind of thing I love to see! When I was a kid, I had a dream once that spectacular hot air balloons in all sorts of shapes and c...

This morning Marco and I walked out to Summit Avenue, four blocks from our home, to check out the Twin Cities Marathon. The Twin Cities Mara...

While we were in France I almost had no connection to the internet (except for one day in Toulouse) so I couldn't write about what we di...

We're back from France. We've been back for a couple days, and I've been in that funny window of time where, culturally, I have ...

This past week was such a fantastic week. Marco and I spent it on the southwest coast of France with about twenty of our friends, five kids,...

You know, when you hear about an earthquake like the one that just struck in Peru, it seems like a pretty absurd thing to make such a big de...

I just made my first fused-glass plate today. I can't believe it -- a success on my first try. That so rarely happens. Here it is, with ...

Marco and I were walking home from my studio this evening and saw a HUGE rainbow over the city! We live up a hill at the edge of downtown St...

As of about one week ago, Marco and I now sleep on a traditional Japanese futon (called a shikibuton) laid on tatami mats. I sleep like a ro...

I can't wait until Marco's back! He's been gone all week -- first in Rome, then in Latvia. He was there for work. It feels like ...

I keep trying to see this bridge with my own eyes, but it's blocked off in every direction. There has to be three miles of perimeter sur...

Wow, I watched more interviews this morning (on Google video) with people who survived the collapse of the bridge in Minneapolis. So intense...

Wow, a big Minneapolis freeway bridge just collapsed into the Mississippi river! I was in my studio in St. Paul at the time, so I'm fine...

Sometimes when I was living in France, it drove me crazy how European newspapers (not only French ones) really demonized Americans. They sho...

The only satisfying thing that I accomplished today was that I had some interesting ideas for new stained glass panels. I am continuing to m...

Today was just one of those days where everything refused to work. Whether it was the computer, my tools and equipment... even my clothes, e...