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Can a stegosaurus wear a backpack?

The simple answer is yes, but the search for a pack that works is not easy. In 1978, I broke my back in an unfortunate tire swing accident. It healed just fine, but the combination of that and scoliosis meant I had to have back surgery to keep from being crippled in...

Communications FastTrack: BLOGGING

Don’t just have a blog, have a good blog. This presentation is from the Communications FastTrack – NACBA (National Association of Church Business Administration), presented on 7.11.12.  Download the notes in PDF format: Everybody has a blog  Links to blog...

I’m trying to clean up my personal blog.

Excessable Christmas eBook

I finally made Excessable Christmas into an eBook!  Excessable Christmas is a book I self-published in January 2010.  It’s a PDF format for now, although I learned a lot about making ePUB and MOBI books too.  You can download it for free using the link below....

go spidey! [minimalist challenge item #214]

[item] Spiderman blanket, toilet paper holder and a pillow sham. [purchase info] Sham – new, toilet paper holder – given to me, blanket from grandma [time in my possession] A couple of months to 9 years. [last used] Never, except the blanket.  About 3...

gracie rockin’ the guitar [daily good photo]

[like… a lot]  Once a month on Thursdays, we go to the nursing home across the street to hang out and sing with the residents.  I love to hear their stories, like Flo who was an incredible artist and painter or Ethel, 99 years old that was a biker chick in her...

peacock feather [daily good photo]

[like]  I like, okay, love peacock feathers.  The colors are bold and beautiful, but more than that, they are a sign of protection.  I’ve studied Persian rug art and the peacock feather is a sign of protection.  This particular feather is wrapped around my happy...

dressed to shop [trashogram]

This trashogram was made from items sitting in bins in my garage, most of it purchased as props for a school photography class.  The doll, decked out in her fancy Mastercard dress, is surrounded by shoes and many other random objects that she could place in her...

white elephant gift exchange [trashogram]

White elephant gift exchanges are fun and seem to be a good way to part with some crazy things you own.  Have you ever participated in one of these?  I found this little white elephant couple in the trash. The good thing about the white elephant gift exchange is that...

box tops for education [trashogram]

All of these box tops were in the junk drawer.  These have expiration dates on them, but this is only a 2 month supply, so they’re all good.  I sent them off to school this week. Even if you don’t have kids, save these and give them to your local school....

the junk drawer [trashogram]

This is the bottom of my junk drawer… In cleaning it, I found lots of spare change and all kinds of odds and ends.  90% of this stuff is things we just don’t need.  You can tell a lot from a junk drawer.  We mess with hardware stuff a lot, I have young...

Thanks for coming to MinistryCOM!

Thank you to all that came to my breakout session at MinistryCOM this year.  I’m also glad you made it to my blog, as my digitalfondue.org domain was not working.  I’m so sorry!  I had to transfer it, and in the process the forwarding got turned off....

The Pink Motel

The Pink Motel by Carol Ryrie Brink (1959) Nothing exciting ever happens to Kirby or Bitsy Mellen–that is, until their mother inherits a motel in Florida from her great-granduncle Hiram, complete with a roster of eccentric guests. New this winter are the Browns,...

global-give-green, an exercise in repurposed art

These small pieces of art are made on painted MDF panels that were about to be thrown in the trash.  The words are cut out of magazines, the leftover magazine skeletons went to the recycling bin.  Most of the paint is leftovers from other art projects.  Most of the...

The Art of Peter Max [book review]

The Art of Peter Max Publish date: October 1, 2002  ISBN:0810932709 Booklist review: Peter Max created a delirium of gorgeously imaginative and technically innovative posters and album covers during the sixties that perfectly capture the liberating power of rock and...

Orbiting the Giant Hairball [book review]

Publish date: April 1, 1998  ISBN: 0670879835 Booklist review: There is no denying the creativity of someone who can persuade one of the 50 largest private companies in the U.S. to create a position for him called “creative paradox,” or someone who can...