Recently, at my DayJob, we’ve started to get emails about how far children are behind compared to themselves, or others, pre-pandemic. Test scores are being compared, and conclusions drawn. Meanwhile, I’m left wondering, what about the adults? Those in the lives of these kids, but also the rest of the world *waves about* who went […]
I have a mere 15 pages left to my current Every Thing Every Where Journal. This is crunch time for finalizing the prep for the new journal. Luckily I started the prep when I had 100 pages left. I wrote about that already. What I want to explore today is the final stages of a […]
I’m not sure when I first learned of a Commonplace Book. College maybe? I know my first serious girlfriend had a journal she jammed quotes from books and movies into. I don’t know that she ever called it a Commonplace Book, but it was. Carefully copying over sections of text seemed painful to me. I […]
There is no way to keep a notebook that is perfect for every person. There is only the perfect way for each person. That is to say, keeping a notebook is highly personalized. My method of a pocket notebook and 3×5 cards alongside a sketchbook (currently also functioning as my ETEW Journal) and a separate […]
Lisa led me down the rabbit hole of Raul Pacheco-Vega, Phd. website and his version of the Every Thing Every Where journal which he calls his Everything Journal. His notetaking methods and interaction with materials is NEXT level. Here’s a link to his Everything Journal. He goes deep on the differences between bullet journals and […]
Jestine wrote about running tasks lists in bullet journals at Rediscovering Analog. It’s a great way to keep a week’s worth of tasks organized and would blend seamlessly with an Every Thing Every Where Journal. I’ve been thinking about rubber stamps, mainly because I’ve gotten a bunch of them for my Every Thing Every Where […]
Carbon black paints deserve posts of their own so I’m writing a post with some details. I read an artist bloviating that lamp black is an inferior black for ink and paint, and honestly I couldn’t disagree more. I’m starting this off by writing about lamp black. If you are familiar with sumi or India […]
I started watching videos about primitive pottery making years ago. There is something very soothing about watching someone dig up mud, strain and sift it to make a pliable clay, then turning that clay into pottery. I suspect that if I lived in a more rural location I’d have a kiln in my backyard and […]
This was originally posted to my Ko-Fi page a month early for followers and supporters. If you would like to read these posts a month early, head over to my ko-fi account to follow me there. A question about drawing portraits and getting better at drawing portraits popped up on my threads feed. Appropriate right? […]
I talk about balance on my Less is More Healthy vlog often. For much of my life, my life has been out of balance, and it wasn’t until my late 30s that I realized just how out of balance my life really was. I had this moment in my HR office where I was listing […]