Fyrewurks

I’ve been working on creating some new sites over topics I really enjoy (as opposed to some boring ones I have done in the past) and am focusing on high quality articles and images on them.  I had hired writers before who had done some mediocre work that I posted anyway since I’d paid for [...]

My little sis and I just had one of the best meals in Tulsa (second only to a Fuji meal) at Lanna Thai.  Everything is so fresh and flavorful there!  I started out with THE best coffee I’ve ever had – their Thai Iced Coffee (super strong, just how I like it, and the white [...]

I got the promo Fasciinatiion CD in the mail last month and I’ve had a few listens and it’s been entertaining.  It’s the kind of CD you’ll want to turn up in the car and your drive will be really great, but then a week later you may forget you ever had it. My favorite songs [...]

(That title was so Sufjan). (Let me preface this by saying that this blog post is written with a a few glasses of red wine… I feel so chatty but I’ll pare things down!) I finally got around to watching The Go-Getter (starring the lovely, dryly humorous, and interesting Zooey Deschanel) and while I haven’t had the time [...]

I decided to figure out what mosaic I was going to do once I got to my 2nd class and saw the colored tiles that I had ordered up close and personal, and once I saw them I know what I wanted to do.  (It was a little disconcerting to see that most everyone else [...]

I was recently asked to convert a site to WordPress and I went ahead and did it at no charge, and then I started thinking that if I can do it as a favor for someone then I should really take the time to do it with my baby site (i.e. my first site and still [...]

Ev’ry path cross’d and ones you wanted to cross wrap’d in a clean package

My sister sent me a pic of some of the smalti tiles we chose from in our last class – as you can see, it’s much brighter and more colorful than the smalti used in Byzantine art: I chose lots of blues and greens – at the moment I thought something oceanic sounded cool… but [...]

My sister had the fun idea for us to take an Italian mosaics class together and we just got out of the first class – I’m so excited!  We’re using smalti for our mosaics in this class and I just love it!  The tile is formed by mixing molten glass with metal oxides and it [...]

Forget the Chinese and the Russians, forget the current administration, forget global warming, french fries, cigarettes, and not wearing your seatbelt; a f#*kin’ smart guy may be to blame for your end (and… everyone else’s??). I’ve had people trying to get me to read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown for years, so I finally [...]