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Birch Bay Public Market
Friday, May 10 through the end of summer, Cathy and I will be selling her hand-made soaps, lotions, and toiletries, along with my photography, note cards, calenders, books, etc.
Come see us!
Across the street from the C Shop
4825 Alderson Road, Birch Bay, Washington 98230
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I had an automated blogroll here, powered by Google Reader, but Google, in its near-infinite lack of wisdom, killed Google Reader. Prior to this murder, all I had to do to put a blog on my blogroll (or to take it off) was to place it in a Reader folder called, appropriately enough, "blogroll" (or, of course, to remove it).
I use The Old Reader now for following blogs, but it seems to have no way to something similar regarding the blogroll.
If you know of a way to do this, please let me know.
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Posted in Writing 31 May 2012 16:47
The Cabinetmaker
John Doe, a cabinetmaker, was wandering through the stacks in the farthest, darkest corner of his local hardwood dealer’s lot one fine spring day, when he came upon a very old piece of old-growth cherry wood that had been lying there air-drying in that very yard for thirty years. It was four inches thick,
Continue reading The Cabinetmaker, the Photographer, the Sculptor, and the Editor
Posted in Writing 8 August 2011 10:03
Trust your instinct as least as much as you trust your editor.
I’m not going to link to the blog post where I found this, because it’s not my goal here to embarrass or shame anyone, or to set myself up as a better source than another blog. I only want to point out that a
Continue reading Correction vs Incorrection
Posted in Writing 27 January 2011 21:13
“There was a man” is a profoundly different sentence than “There was an old man,” which is profoundly different than “There was, back when we lived in the blue house, a man down the street from us, down toward Graves Avenue.” And that last one is different than “There was in those days an elder
Continue reading Four Sentences
Posted in Writing 15 October 2010 11:41
You have no idea how annoying this is to me!
Or at least I assume none of my three regular readers have figured out, over the years, how annoying it is to me that so many people rant and rail against something that they call “passive voice,” or “passive tense,” or “passive verbs,” all the while
Continue reading “Active” vs “Passive” Round N, or “Once more into the breach, my friends!”
Posted in Writing 13 August 2010 08:10
There’s at least one thing more amusing than people ranting and railing against passive voice:
…the fact that they can’t even identify it.
[P]eople disagree with me when I point out such things (over and over again, like a CD that has gotten stuc- stuc- stuc- stuc- stuc- stuc- stuc- stuc- stuck), and ask rhetorically where on
Continue reading Another Jab at the Passive Phantom
Posted in Writing 18 August 2009 16:43
Advice on painting:
Eliminate all unneeded colors.
Eliminate all unneeded brush strokes.
Every brush stroke should do one of two things: tell the story or build the subject’s face.
Never use red.
Whenever you want to add a color, ask yourself “Does this color add anything to the face?” If not, eliminate it.
Ok, I made all that up. But I’m
Continue reading Bad Advice, Part II – The Banned Tools
Posted in Writing 2 February 2009 12:51
Wandering slowly and aimlessly through the thickly growing vines of the cyber jungle, I happened quite unexpectedly upon yet another rant about the use of adverbs, this one (quite illogically) perpetuating the common and poorly-thought-out adage that using adverbs equals using passive voice.
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All she wants is to hide her scarred face. All he wants is to take the perfect portrait.
Who are you, that you should forget the Lord your maker, who has stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the Earth?
Doesn't the sun always come up again?
You cannot be yourself until you know who you are.

Fear is a powerful enemy. But it’s a powerful ally, too.

Sometimes, life just isn’t like a storybook.
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