June 2011

  • Rob

    There’s a certain deep sense of foreboding you feel when you receive an email from an old friend, one you haven’t spoken to in a couple of years,  and it reads, “Did you hear about Rob?”  That’s the note I had waiting for me in my mailbox on Tuesday and about as fast as I…

  • The Near Birth of Greene Snottis

    On Christmas Eve, the day before I entered this world, my mom was in a bar drinking, chain-smoking and watching a Cowboys game.  Warning labels hadn’t been gracing the packs of cigarettes for all that long and I hope that not a lot of information about fetal alcohol syndrome was known at the time; otherwise,…

  • Birthdays

    As I mentioned before, Kendra offered up the idea of writing posts about my various birthdays for the June Creativity Challenge and as I also mentioned in that same post,  I can’t remember them well thanks to the whole bundling of Christmas with my birthday. Sure, there are a few that definitely stick out.  When…

  • A New Class

    Until a couple of weeks ago you would find me sitting in an improv class every Saturday.  That changed when our 501 class didn’t make.  Apparently, a class of two isn’t quite enough.  Our original 101 class, which started with 16 people had dwindled down to 3 by the time we reached 401.  We were…

  • Day 2 (AND 3): The Purse

    Yesterday, in honor of the creativity challenge, I decided it was time to re-tackle the awful purse project I have scattered across the sewing table. It’s been sitting there for a good couple of months and since then I’ve managed to make another purse rather than face all the cut out bits that lie in…

  • Day 1: June Creativity Challenge

    I just finished having dinner with my friend Kendra and learned that there is a creativity challenge going on where participants commit to doing something creative every day for the month of June.  For Kendra’s husband Jeff, the artist, he and his friends typically draw a comic a day (or they have in the past) (Psst –…