My current passport photo sucks. It sucks so bad that I want to declare my passport stolen and get new one. The problem is that I’ve had my photo taken by more than one passport photographer who, when I reject the image they hand over to me, insist that I take it with a “What [...]
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LeMelonRouge, AmoRina Ashton, And Milly Sharple At La Criee Art Gallery
I’m always curious about new ways to exhibit art work, so every now and then I’ll go exploring alternative spaces which include flying through SecondLife to see if I can find something new that I may not see anywhere else. This month I found a virtual art exhibition on at La Criee Art Gallery in [...]
KURU KURU WORLD
I’m a geek. I’ll be the first to admit it. I love technology almost as much as I love art, and I respect artists that have embraced technology wholeheartedly. It is the week between Christmas and New Year’s. While many folks are off visiting relatives and spreading holiday joy, I have nothing, or not much, [...]
Time Travel Before The Atomic Clock
Being no stranger to the contemplation of the subject of time travel, because, for the most part, I spend a good portion of my daily daydreaming quota thinking about the concept of time – what it is, how it works, and how I can create artwork from it. I also love traveling by train. It’s something [...]
My Love Of Souvenirs
The whole point of my having a souvenir of a journey or a trip or a travel is to jog my memory. A souvenir acts as a touchstone, so that when I see it, or touch it, the memory of the day or moment when I got it comes flooding back. I write about souvenirs [...]
Five Reasons Why I Travel
The Five Reasons Why I Travel Meme: 1. Wanderlust. Lust being the operative part of that word. I lust for cultures I do not live in, languages I do not speak, food that I did not grow up eating, and history that I was not part of. You could also call it a drive or [...]
The Best Part Of Travel
When I was younger, I had always thought that the best part of travel was the experience of it, the challenge of it, the now of it. Moving from place to place, discovering new (to me) places, hidden nooks and crannies, learning a new language, meeting people, standing in front of a famous artwork and [...]
Learning About Myself When I Travel
There are many people on the planet who are just fine with not knowing who they are. I did not start out to travel with the idea that I would learn more about myself than anything else I learned in the process of travel. It just happened. It’s never within the trip that I have [...]
Neverending Travel: Part I
When does a trip begin? When does a trip end? If I think about these two questions for too long a period of time, the answers, and the questions, become like a chicken and egg kind of paradox. There are many moments in time when a trip can be considered to begin. The moment I [...]
Traveling Through The Family Tree
When I was a little girl, really little, as in before I started any kind of schooling, my family lived out in the woods on an isolated back road in western Pennsylvania. I had one sister at the time, but she was still just a blob in her crib and she didn’t really do much [...]
