You have been most self-indulgent. I can't get over it. You have less restraint rather than more as you grow older. Think it over and al...

I didn't mean to be maudlin on that last entry, but I was thinking about Robert Palmer - how he was basically a clean-living family ma...

When I was a little girl I would chase the tendrils of smoke hanging heavy in the air of my grandfather's house. Sometimes I would try...

Overcast today. I got in my truck after buying a toolbox for my silverworking gear. In the road beyond the parking lot and waiting for the...

Recipe of the day: Fried banana slugs. Take however many bananas you want to make. If you plan this dish as an hors d'oeuvre, 2 sl...

Soundtrack for a rainy day: Spiritchaser by Dead Can Dance.

I love the silken turning of the steel mandrel, enjoy its weight as the molten glass winds onto its shaft. I am aware of the callous it has ...

I was registering for my silversmithing class today, and waiting was abject tedium. The local college is like an unwieldy machine from anot...

I read somewhere recently that certain great thinkers of our age believe humanity will bring about its own extinction. The thought process ...

People have been telling me they've heard Terminator and Charlie's Angels were bad movies. Well, I've seen them both and I like...

OK. I finally saw the latest Star Wars installment, that clone war thingie,and I have some questions for someone more versed in Star Wars th...

A very disturbed person I know (one who can't say "thank you" for huge favors but instead offers the old saw "Kum by yah...

I saw Guy Ritchie's remake of "Swept Away" starring Madonna. Not as crappy as I expected after the pic was so soundly lambast...

Visiting the Pacific Northwest, I have come to the conclusion that I wear more makeup and hair product than every woman I have seen in the ...