Not long ago, I noticed - a larger than I would have liked - spider crawl out of the corner of the windowsill in the laundry room. Before we met, I noticed its web, irregular and messy looking, not the beautiful concentric circles one tends to think of when picturing a spider web. This one is three-dimensional, not single-strand flat, and built for capture. It’s the unmade bed of spiderwebs but created that way on purpose to cover a lot of ground. I’ve watched the web grow

The bread. I didn’t like the wheat bread my mother made when I was a kid. She bought and ground the wheat herself and baked loaf after...

For a wholesaler, how one breaks into retail is something that continues to evolve, well, sort of. Today, we post new products on social...

When I started to paint fish magnets again I thought this would be a super cinch. I’ve painted thousands of them in the past and it all...

I spent the morning searching all over the house, the garage, my office, everywhere, looking for my three sets of fish dies. I stored...

It all began years ago, when I was straight out of college looking for that first job as a reporter in San Diego and then this “prop” for...

Years ago, while freelancing, my editor told me how she once had a column in the local newspaper entitled “About Anything” where she’d...