On October 27, 2011, the falling foliage in the Berkshires was urged along by an unseasonal dumping of snow. Big, December-sized flakes fell through the afternoon and well into the night. Carved pumpkins seemed out of place and fall coats were too thin. On televisions in homes and bars, game six of the World Series … Continue reading Because one day I might want to remember

I got my craft on the other night and made a couple of packets of Halloween-themed notecards... what I'm going to do with them, I have no idea, but the activity kept my hands busy and out of the bag of Cheez Doodles. So. For my scraptacular friends and readers, here are a couple of … Continue reading Getting Crafty – Halloween Notecards

Like many writers before me, I'm forever saving little snippets of information that I think I may want to revisit some day. Technology has made this packratism simpler and less messy - I now have a folder marked 'Things I Want to Save' on my desktop and I pop articles, links, photos, and other tidbits … Continue reading Little Tid-bits of Terror

Filed under the category of Things I Can't Afford this month is one of a limited series of original sketches from the Garth Williams -illustrated edition of E.B. White's classic Charlotte's Web. The art is up for auction, and the bidding is expected to hover around the $20,000 to $30,000-mark for each illustration. For those … Continue reading Terrific. Radiant. Humble.

My friend Adam is a snappy designer and illustrator, who has apparently been burning the midnight oil channeling the Creepy Season into a series of pen and ink drawings. I first spotted them in my Instagram stream; there are more at Adam's art and illustration site Little Green Toaster and his scratch blog I'd Rather … Continue reading Petrifying Ink