Maybe it's the long time desire and research, or maybe it's all the times of painting, or maybe it's all the years of furniture restoration...whatever it is, I feel like a fish to water in the restoration workshop. Here is just a couple of things I've worked on. It's h...

Recently I listened to the audio of the book The Goldfinch. Although I find the character's story so different than anything that I've experience, so many of the things and the emotions he mentions have so many connections.

For one, his mother is from Oklahoma and her l...