Surgeon General’s Warning: This post contains light bragging proceed proread at your own risk. The Mecca for Makers, and a highlight of every May, is the Maker Faire at the San Mateo Convention Center. I love the tinkerer energy, the eclectic exhibitions of blinking lights, bicycle powered music, and the opportunity to try things out and geek out around all …
Listen!
During regular days, I seldom stop and listen. The routine, all the other things to think about and still need to be done: “Nina, please go to bed. Now!” Last night after a great meal and being on vacation even though it was way past her bedtime, we were hanging out on the balcony of our hotel in Santa Cruz …
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Highlands Marching Band Best of 4th of July Parade :-)
I am still stunned, that within a month I with the help of some friendly neighbors was able to bring 20+ musicians and helpers together to rehearse three times and then march and play in the 4th of July Highlands parade. Sweet proof of how the internet can bring us closer together. Almost 2 years ago we moved to the …
Building a Carboard Box House
If you have a couple of hours a box cutter and a big cardboard box, you can have a lot of fun creating a little house with your kid(s). The Flickr set can give you some inspiration. In short: Take off the flaps of the box; cut out an upside J for the door on one side; don’t forget a …
‘S-capades’… of her hands and mind
My sister Sabina the artist. She doesn’t like that label, but it is time to call a spade a spade. For as long as I have known her, which is going towards half a century any year now, she had an eye for beauty and cool ideas. One day for example she saved a birch tree stem, cut it to …