Writer's Block: Collect 'em all
May. 19th, 2011 05:55 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
Paperweights! Preferably but not necessarily dichroic, and with spillovers into marbles and other pretty glass/acrylic items.
I started after seeing a gorgeous paperweight (later, much later, identified as Robert Eickholt's Blue Veil). I couldn't resist the paperweights I found during the search for Blue Veil, nor have I stopped collecting since I found it. Specifically, I'm still looking for a late 1990s version of the ever-hanging Glass Eye Studio Uranus paperweight.
Paperweights! Preferably but not necessarily dichroic, and with spillovers into marbles and other pretty glass/acrylic items.
I started after seeing a gorgeous paperweight (later, much later, identified as Robert Eickholt's Blue Veil). I couldn't resist the paperweights I found during the search for Blue Veil, nor have I stopped collecting since I found it. Specifically, I'm still looking for a late 1990s version of the ever-hanging Glass Eye Studio Uranus paperweight.
Writer's Block: Teenage dream
Apr. 7th, 2011 08:10 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
It would depend upon whether the asker meant first love or first crush.
For first love, it would be easy: "Hi, Andy, let me help you with some of those things you're carrying."
First crush would be more bittersweet, since he died last year. I think the first thing I would do would be to hug him. And while they might not be the first words to pop out of my mouth, at some point I would ask "How did it happen?"
It would depend upon whether the asker meant first love or first crush.
For first love, it would be easy: "Hi, Andy, let me help you with some of those things you're carrying."
First crush would be more bittersweet, since he died last year. I think the first thing I would do would be to hug him. And while they might not be the first words to pop out of my mouth, at some point I would ask "How did it happen?"
Writer's Block: Goodness gracious
May. 22nd, 2010 06:51 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
When Gail, our second cat, was deteriorating, she stopped eating. In desperation I went to Whole Foods and asked the clerk in the seafood department for ideas, explained why, and then asked for a sample size of the fish he recommended. He cut off a fairly decent chunk and, although it was more than I wanted, I took it up to the register. It turns out that he had put in the code for "free sample". And the fish was one of the last things she ate.
When Gail, our second cat, was deteriorating, she stopped eating. In desperation I went to Whole Foods and asked the clerk in the seafood department for ideas, explained why, and then asked for a sample size of the fish he recommended. He cut off a fairly decent chunk and, although it was more than I wanted, I took it up to the register. It turns out that he had put in the code for "free sample". And the fish was one of the last things she ate.
Writer's Block: Turn and face the strain
Apr. 14th, 2010 12:12 pmI've been tempted to do a few of these in the past, but this is the first one I've actually overcome my apathy to do:
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