I thought it might never happen. In fact, I had given up many times in the past. But finally, after 10 years, I finished In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann’s. Recently, I went to Chicago and was so desperately looking forward to the plane ride because I knew I would be able to use that time to finish up the last 100 pages of this book. Indeed, I did.
I was in Chicago this past weekend for BlogHer ’13 to help out at the WordPress Happiness Bar. While my coworkers have heard me say this about a dozen times now, I’ve never met anyone who’s been to Chicago and didn’t like it. So now I can officially join that crowd.
Not too long ago, I wrote about the Montclair Art Museum and, this past weekend, I finally took a portrait workshop at the Yard School of Art. The last time I took a bonafide art course was almost 10 years ago when I took a few teen classes at the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. At the time, I was planning to go to art school and spent many hours between my high school art classes, nighttime drawing sessions, and workshops at Moore drawing, painting, sketching, and dreaming about being an artist. After eventually deciding that art school wasn’t for me, not having admissions as a goal really allowed me to drop my art practice.
Punk: Chaos to Couture is an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum that chronicles the influence that punk culture has had on high fashion…
There are certain movies, and books, for that matter, that you can use to trace the timeline of your life…
