2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 34,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at…

Princess India

I lost India, my beloved studio-mate Saturday, June 7th. I'm only now able to write about her.  She was loved and maybe even a little spoiled. India was her mama's baby but she spent the workday with me. Not only was she my work companion—as…

Bilingual Ukrainian-English Picturebooks

I received a note from a former student this morning, and thought I'd pass it along. Oksana and here friends want to publish picture books with both Ukrainian & English texts. The link explains the project. Dear John, This is Oksana Lushchevska…

A martini for Harriet

3/3/14: I wrote this a few years ago. My clunky writing style back then concealed rather than expressed my feelings. I'm not changing it, though. And no adult beverages today! I'm abstaining from absolutely everything til Easter.

Lagoon in the Afternoon on ebay

I'm auctioning my thrift-store-painting-with-a-monster, Lagoon in the Afternoon, over at ebay. . Happy bidding!

2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 35,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert…

Bigfoot

Hey, Gang—if you are among those unhappy people who haven't read Vince Dorse' Untold Tales of Bigfoot, you can change that right away! Vince is up to page 66 already, but you can find the entire story in the archives. Happy reading!

Stupid riddle…

This is one of those silly FaceBook fads at the moment. One of my friends had this message posted: I lost the great giraffe challenge. I dare you to try it. The deal is I give you a riddle; you get it right, you keep your profile pic. You get…

Substitute preacher

I had the honor of preaching at my church this morning—Second Presbyterian Church of Oil City. Our beloved pastor left to explore his new path in ministry, so now we're looking for a new one. In the meantime, we elders are taking turns at…

Beth McKinney’s blog

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