Barak Obama nominated as the Democratic candidate for president. John McCain picked a woman as his running mate for the Republican nomination (that’s a first for them, but the Democrats had Geraldine). No matter who wins, it will be historic. Also I went to a Kentucky Arts Council Grant Writing Workshop and am involved in […]

Today I took the kids out on the concrete area outside our school’s side door. It’s kind of nice because it is shaded and relatively clean for a concrete slab. And the weather was too beautiful to be inside. I gave them each a huge 36″ X 24″ sheet of newsprint, a big paint brush, […]

This was our whirlwind tour of Oxford day. We spent a lot of time on trains. We would have left earlier but couldn’t get a taxi from Hever Hotel until later. Then we went from Edenbridge to Redhill to Reading to Oxford with some fast runs and a few missed trains in between. Luckily there’s […]

There is an artist named Charley Harper who is 83. He’s from Cincinnati and he created an awesome poster of birds for Cornell’s ornithology department. I must have it.