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Todays topic for Studio Friday is tools. I have been thinking a lot lately about what I really need to make stuff (especially as I have been going ...

Trying to get back in the habit with my Daily Happiness Blog. Sometimes all we need is to be able to share in what other people are happy about to ...

My Mom sent me this photo of Liz and Henry yesterday. Just made me smile. Both are doing well and adjusting to one another in that crazy way it all...

Simon got a special treat from his Dutch friend Victor a couple days ago. He had the best time opening up the package and playing with all the trea...

Thanks Michelle for sharing this story: It's A Wonderful Life. And after you read that entry, take a peek around Michelle's site. She is an amazing...

Tonight Chris and I watched Inside the Twin Towers on the Discovery Channel. During a commercial we were talking about being "prepared" for a disas...

and then took a bit of a turn. After coming home from a couple errands, I was eating and Chris was surfing online and Simon was out watching the el...

Right now I am enjoying a completely uneventful, "normal" Saturday morning. Chris is reading the paper. We are watching some of Simon's favorite vi...

This week's Studio Friday topic is about breaking free from Artist Block. Everyone gets to a point where they are just stuck, when the juices aren'...

Just wanted to let you guys know that because of your strong support Chris will receive a $1000 campaign donation from Oregon Congressman Earl Blum...

One of the things I have been working on around here is setting up a newsletter. This will be different from the Cafe Press newsletter - it will be...

The two newest residents in our home. No names. Just "fish." We attended an event last Friday night and the hostess had a cool fish tank with a bun...

garbage bags. They are good for collecting and hauling stuff. That's my happiness today (along with going to the "cool" park this morning with Chri...

Excess. Love it? Hate it? Indifferent? Right now, I am hating it. It seems like it is all around me. I wrote a bit in my journal about it yesterday...

Simon and I have been exploring area parks this week. So many good ones to choose from. Today we checked out a new one by the river - it is amazing...

at the way that Simon has been talking since I got home from NZ/Australia. He is actually engaging in conversation, answering questions, asserting ...

Chris here with a guest post. It’s great to have Ali back home from her travels. I like having her here to share my daily campaign trail stories wi...

is kinda strange after being gone for so long. It is all the same and different all at once. An adjustment back into my normal existence I suppose....