Mary and I took a glassblowing class yesterday at Diablo Glass School. I wasn't sure what to expect. I was half expecting to work with little blow torches. I was most definitely not expecting to stick a metal rod into a 2100-degree furnace full of molten glass. And then sit on a bench and form... Continue Reading →
Happy Earth Day
Happy Earth Day! I just spent $5 to plant 5 trees in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. It's one of the world's most endangered tropical forests, and the Nature Conservancy is striving to plant a billion trees there by 2015. Now it's 5 trees closer to its goal! One week from right now, Wills and... Continue Reading →
Season 4
Back from a whirlwind tour of western NY. Skinny Atlas was a nice little town. Not much going on there. As my mom and I discovered, you can't really drive around the lake like you can at other Finger Lakes. We did drive around it, but half the time couldn't see the water. And the... Continue Reading →
Some New Tunes and a Picnic
This Saturday is Record Store Day. If any of you still buy CDs like I do, visit your local record store, will ya?? I'll be buying the new Radiohead album. Next Friday is Earth Day. The Nature Conservancy is promoting a cool campaign called "Picnic for the Planet." Have a picnic sometime next week, will... Continue Reading →
Ants in My Pants
I've got ants in my pants! Ants in my paaaants... No, I don't really. Not at all. It's just a fun thing to say. I do, however, have ants in my apartment. By my front door. I've been killing them swiftly with a soap and water mixture, but more just keep showing up. These... Continue Reading →
