Quoth Og Mandino

"Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

In which I learn useful new Photoshop tricks

I consider myself reasonably well-versed in Photoshop, but I’m also a creature of habit. Once I’ve learned how to do something, I generally don’t go out looking for a more efficient way to do that thing. However, sometimes a situation crops up where the normal way of doing things becomes so wastefully time-consuming that [...]

Bragging on daughter

We interrupt this blog for some intensive and focused bragging on my daughter, who’s been having a bang-up year so far, as evinced by the following:

1) She made honor roll this term, for the first time in her whole elementary school career.

2) She achieved a “self manager” badge, which is actually surprisingly [...]

Ikea Fans Fume over Switch to Verdana

Behold … the tyranny of Verdana!

The Font War: Ikea Fans Fume over Switch to Verdana.

You know what I’m guessing? I’m guessing they’re switching to Verdana for their print materials because they want them to be consistent with their Web branding. Which is so horribly, hideously wrong that I can’t begin to say. [...]