Today I’m 43. I’m now officially as old as my parents. I always remember my parents as being “in their 40s”. Now I’m smack in the middle of MY 40s. I’ll mark the day by throwing some pots, eating some lasagna, and reminiscing about where I’ve been during the past 4.3 decades.
To start the navel […]
The glaze firing went pretty well last weekend. I glazed the whole load with an emerald green glaze. The glaze didn’t turn out exactly how I wanted, but not bad. A half dozen mugs came out quite nice.
The best results came on a dark colored clay I experimented with. I have a feeling it will […]
Ok - so I’ve been pretty successful in showing my primitive-fired work. Now, it’s time to take on some glazed work. I have a few serving bowls and mugs bisqued - some of them have fish or dogwood motifs carved into them. I’m going to spend this week glazing a kiln load and see if […]
Finally - the hard part is over. Or is it?
Megan and I got home from Texas about 2:00 AM this morning. Only about an hour behind schedule. Not bad for today’s airlines.
The memorial service was hard. It’s difficult to know what to say about a brother you didn’t know real well. I shared a few […]
1 I 314. That is my brother, Jack’s new address. My wife and I visited him today. He has a nice place, with a beautiful view. Things are still in a bit of disarray, because he just got there on Monday. It was difficult to visit him today. It finally hit me that this will […]
Last night was “Opening Night” for my show at the Burien Art Gallery. It went quite well. I got to meet a lot of new people, and talk art with some great people. I’m so glad I decided to go. It was hard to get up the “want to” because it was only last Friday […]