Conversations With The Dead

Conversations With The Dead

Elegy for Carolyn She said:Every star is a grain of sand in the hourglass of destiny. And I said:The stars are dead people looking down on us with one eye. She was a stranger to herself and someone else was paying a visit to her life. Then she said:Each new life or...
You Nailed It

You Nailed It

You really nailed it this time! Nail Throne (30″ high) and table created by MMB • Photo by MMB When I stopped building and remodeling houses for a living after training to become, and getting my first job as a graphic artist in my 20’s at Media 4, an ad agency,...
The Future of the Future

The Future of the Future

This is the future! The floppy future, in a black 8″ cardboard case My uncle Malcolm McAfee was a Futurist before that was even a word. In the early 1970s, he gave family member a 8 “ floppy disk in a thin black cardboard shell for Christmas, before any of us...
To Bee or not to Bee

To Bee or not to Bee

I love having a beehive in my bedroom! Honey Factories I walked upstairs in my friend Karen Aschenbach’s very old Vermont farmhouse and heard a low buzzing drone when she opened the door to her room. There was a large beehive inside the framing and the weathered...