We live in a time of immense distraction. Moment by moment, breaking news bombards our minds with the next new thing to worry about. Over time I think many of us find it all more exhausting than informing. We need time to digest what it is we are hearing and seeing, and that time, often, just isn’t there. So in the spirit of our times, I have chosen this morning to bombard my modest number of readers with more stuff to process, just in case you were in danger of finding the t

Whenever I sculpt a new piece my creative ego vacillates broadly between periods of self-confidence and intense skepticism. One moment...

After years of stubborn resistance, and frankly, satisfaction with the old wall phone, we just bought our first smart phone. We are feeling anything but smart. Of course we got the phone, in part at least, because you can’t get maps anymore, and because everybody expects to be able to get ahold of you whenever and wherever you are. So now after driving 2800 miles through country that we don’t know, instead of finding our way by following the car in front of us that looks most