lessons on paper

Well, it appears I needed to listen to myself today. from 29 December 2019when i lefti didn’t take muchbut my papers and desk.when felt overwhelmedi spent much timeat my papers and desk.when i felt away from the pathi lost the deskbut carried the papers in a small moving box.when i found helpwe were able to […]

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idioms

My good friend Bill’s mother was first generation Italian. She grew up grazing the family’s sheep in the mountains of Northern Italy. She had an idiom regarding the correct way to make Risotto. “The rice must first die in oil, to be borne again in water”. And that is one of the secrets to good

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shiny brite ornaments

Glass Artists of Colorado 17 December 2021 A Sears catalog ad from the 1950s for Shiny Brite ornaments. The Shiny Brite story begins after World War I with Max Eckardt, a German born in 1890. “Though Eckardt was from Oberlind, Germany—just 20 miles away from Lauscha, a hub for glass ornament makers—he first trained in

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