After a long and often painful labour, I’m happy to introduce…the twins! I’m not sure why I plumped up the two eight-foot-wide doilies, freshly completed today, for their first picture. It…

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who is aching to make a break from the indoors and take it all outside. Now that the weather is improving (well, theoretically at this writing) thoughts go to…

Everything’s coming up poodles.  A few months ago I was trying to dog a persistent human-sized crocheted poodle toilet-paper-roll cover. Then it was the whole public art controversy surrounding…

We are to understand that being distracted is bad, and being focused is good.  Being focused will get the job done while being in the moment is not productive — productivity being the cornerstone…

I’m addicted to Google Images and I’m not happy about it. For the last several decades, most of my ideas have come from markings on wood pulp, specifically newspapers. And even though it’s now…

My biggest obstacle is over-thinking — not to be confused with big thinking.  Over-thinking is my umbrella term for all the second-guessing, the predicting, the analyzing and the re-thinking that…

A few weeks back, one of the local dailies ran a staff photo of a grumpy-looking woman wearing a hand-drawn sign around her neck that read: “Mount Pleasant needs a pool not a poodle on a pole.”…

I’m not a sports person. Elementary-school Sports Day was an annual hell . But the bike-decorating portion, now that was my kind of competition. Even today I get choked up when I catch a glimpse of…

I’ve been left high and dry, marooned by a foul waste stream — a particular category of non-recycled stuff that ends up in Vancouver’s landfill. This category consists of many boxes of…

As much as I would like to believe I have enough focus to while away an evening at an art or design lecture, my attention span is… this keyboard is filthy. What was I saying? Our hyper-accelerated…