In last week’s post I had intended to give everyone fair warning that there would be no post this holiday weekend. It has been…
Hands, after faces are probably the most expressive part of our bodies. I like hands. I notice hands. I often remember what ‘type’ of hands…
A gentleman who is a life coach recently asked me about how I taught myself to draw. He was wanting to pick my brain, thinking…
Humour me and draw a big circle in the air. Now, imagine that this circle represents all the knowledge in the world. All of it….
Long long ago, I worked in a children’s mental health facility. On one occasion, I was temporarily helping out in the pre-school classroom. The woman…
Jimmy Stewart starred in a lovely, rather poignant 1950 movie in which Stewart’s character had an imaginary friend named Harvey. Wikipedia’s description of the movie…
A favourite trick of proof readers is to read text from the bottom up to the top. You are more likely to catch an error…
I had the pleasure this past week of attending a fundraiser for WAYS, Western Ontario Youth Services. It was a brilliant idea to copy the…
Every once in a while you need to go back to the proverbial drawing board — meaning, re-evaluate your best laid plans. Sometimes a business…
Johnny Carson. Apparently, he was quite a guy. I can honestly say I rarely watched his show, but I did catch it once, circa 1976,…