Little Journeys

Looking For a Little Common Sense

  Those of us who did not grow up with computers freely admit and marvel over how computers have changed our lives. While still a classroom teacher, I wrote my first book, a study guide for Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped for Monarch…

Lumber Shock

  If you are planning a summer building project of any size, brace yourself for a shock.   First, the lumber aisles at Lowes and Home Depot are looking like the toilet paper aisle during the panic days of the pandemic. Second,…

When Is a Shopmark Not a Shopmark?

This article has been re-published. Original date of publication: June 18th, 2019.   When is a Shopmark Not a Shopmark?   Perhaps when it’s a signature?   I’ve had a fascination with Arts and Crafts shopmarks ever since…

“Is That an Arts and Crafts Fence?”

    As you no doubt have learned, when you move into a house, you inherit the previous owner’s improvements. In our case, in 2002 we inherited a five-foot tall chain link fence encircling the wooded knoll which is our back yard.…

Mark Mazzuki, AAPA President, Passes Away

  Last month we lost the talented graphic designer Mark Mazzuki, age 54, who in his own modest, unassuming way served for more than twenty years as the amazing creative force behind each issue of The Journal of the American Art Pottery…

Learning New Tricks

  In dog years, I must be about 490 years old, but I can say without hesitation that even old dogs can learn new tricks. We just have to be enticed by the right treats . . . . My two sons have long since moved away and built their own…

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