Cincinnati fail
When I graduated high school, I didn't have the moral courage to go to New York, which is what I wanted to do. Instead, a friend and I applied to the Cincinnati Art Academy. She…
Category: Bio
Merry Christmas 2024
Sharing Christmas porn is an annual tradition here at Turpentine HQ. Every year, we promise to economize and tone down gift-giving. But, as you can see, we failed again. In our defense, our four children…
Red River Gorge
We visited the Red River Gorge in Kentucky's Daniel Boone National Forest in October. It's beautiful there, especially in the fall. In addition to camping, fishing, and swimming opportunities, the Forest around the Gorge is crisscrossed…
Rebuilding my computer
My beat-up homemade computer is 15 years old. Future-proofing my computer by building it myself worked but not as well as I'd hoped. The new motherboard with current technologies, for example, also requires a new…
Camera woes
For many years, I have exclusively used photos from my Nikon cameras in my designs. The Nikon D750 remains a great camera. I got mine not long after it was introduced in 2014, I am…
My summer vacation
What is a vacation summary without photographs? Originally, the seven of us planned to tour Virginia and North Carolina with a stop in Washington. No sooner had we started than Hurricane Debby plopped squarely in…
A lot of mediums
I kept studio journals from the outset of my career. At first, I tracked my sales in the journal. Then I started tracking my supplies--the number and size of stretched canvases I had on hand,…
Not Spring
A few sunny days last week tricked me into thinking Spring was coming to NE Ohio. Today's snow proves that hope was false. My son's golf outing yesterday was cut short by a snow squall…