Month: January 2026

Self portraits

My son is a high school sophomore and just started taking a graphic design class—I’m so excited! Since he’s learning to use Illustrator, I showed him the drawing above, which I made with the pen tool based on a webcam selfie in 2002. He was actually a bit impressed, high praise from a teen to […]

John Prine

Last night I was lucky to attend a screening of the concert film/tribute You Got Gold at the Music Box with my friend Web, thanks to the generosity of a stranger with 2 extra tickets to the sold-out screening. It was an excellent and emotional film followed by an interview with John’s wife Fiona Prine. […]

Secondhand Sleuth mysteries

Here is something I had nothing to do with, and only found because of the name, but I really like! Mel Morgan has written a mystery series featuring Jess Braun, a recently divorced woman who has returned to the small Minnesota town where her grandmother and eccentric aunt lived and opened a thrift shop. Her […]