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Strong Weakness – Lessons from Mulan
Happy Anniversary – www.animatingyourlife.com started a month ago today. When I started posting, I hoped to get a couple of hundred hits…this afternoon, I topped 1,000 views and am now at 1,043 with...
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Finding my Incredible’s Super Power
She’d completely messed up and it had almost killed her family. I’m talking about Violet from The Incredibles. Syndrome fires rockets at the plane they’re all in and Violet can’t get her strengths in...
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You’ve Got it ALL!
WARNING!!! The following is a bit of an excuse killer – at least it has been for me – so if you’re deeply dependent on your excuses, you might want to give this one a pass. On the weekend I was...
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Adventures with The Goonies
Sooooooo if you’ve been paying attention, you know my theory: The art we love is trying to teach us something. It’s been working for me, but I had a chance to test it a few days ago....
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It’s all about you – - – except when it’s about me and Monet
Had the best message on the weekend. One of my readers http://21centurymom.wordpress.com/ asked why she was so in love with Monet. I answered that it was because she had such great taste…then I got...
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It’s all the same ugly crap … isn’t it?
I heard it again this weekend “It all sounds the same”. This time it was a symphony conductor regarding Turn of the Century (1900) ballads. It’s one of those things that has ALWAYS driven me nuts....
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Putting it together, bit by unlikely bit
This stuff is sooooo freakin’ cool. I first saw Leo Sewell’s work at the Galerie Christin in Toronto about six or seven years ago. I recently contacted them about buying a piece, then I looked at the...
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Three me’s
Bryce’s Caricature Nadia’s Caricature Didi’s Caricature A few weeks ago some of my students – and former students – were raising money by doing caricatures. Always being one to support the arts – - –...
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M*A*S*Hing it up with friends
M*A*S*H cast season 2 M*A*S*H cast seasons 8 – 11 I’ve been thinking a lot about friends lately, how much I love and cherish the people in my life who drive me crazy and keep me sane. Thinking back...
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Naked in Florence
I’d been seeing pictures of this naked guy for most of my life. Now I was finally in Florence and I figured it was time to see if the real thing measured up. I’m talking about Michelangelo’s David –...
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This Post will last FOREVER . . . Babe!
If you’ve only read one sonnet in your life, it was probably Sonnet 18…”Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day . . .” You were probably forced to read it by some English teacher who was desperate to...
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Tornado Warnings
She’s one of my favourite living artists. I’ve known Lynne McIlvride for decades and am honoured to own one of her originals. I was at the opening of her new show last night...
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A very graphic post.
My cover. “What am I going to do with my life?” I was getting close to 40 and I’d been asking the question for about 10 years. I’d also been reading everything I could on the subject (I’d lost count...
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You’ve Got it ALL!
WARNING!!! The following is a bit of an excuse killer – at least it has been for me – so if you’re deeply dependent on your excuses, you might want to give this one a pass. On the weekend I was...
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