NEW BLOG

That’s right gang. I’m using wordpress to set up a site to keep up with studio happenings.  My plan is for it to be the hub from which all my other web projects: etsy store, portfolio, tumblelog…etc. will be accessable. This site will remain as a kind of “satellite” site for my ramblings. I have [...]

A Few Books I’ve Been Reading Lately…and where they are leading me

My summer reading has been quite interesting this year.
It started with the requisite Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. It must say something about the way teaching effects my psyche that every year when I listen to this (I have the audiobook) I find it convicting and refreshing.
As usual, the list  has contained several mysteries. I’ve been [...]

A Few Thoughts on a Standard Posture

I saw this article in The City Journal:
Roger Scruton
Beauty and Desecration
We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness.
Click the link above to see the article. I included the subtitle because it gives you a sense of where Mr Scruton is headed. It is an argument one comes across regularly in our culture, [...]

Flaws in the Ointment

Alas, two days since I wrote to you, my blog, and posed questions to myself, and already I see some significant–perhaps unsurmountable–problems.
1) I still have little time to write, and when I do have the time I do not feel myself wanting to devote it to writing.
2) I am stuck by the difference in theory [...]

Long Time No Write

Hey there blog.
I’ve been away for a while. Super busy, pretty tired, and frankly, haven’t felt much like putting a bunch of things out there in cyberspace. Oh, don’t get me wrong, it’s not like my life has been miserable. I just haven’t been in a “sharing” mood. I’m not sure I’m cut out for [...]

The End of Summer

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Originally uploaded by Mo Coffee

This is what 4 days of working on syllabii has done to me.

new platters in kiln

new platters in kiln
Originally uploaded by Mo Coffee
Other pieces I was hoping to get done by the end of May. (See this post).
They’ll be done by Monday, unless I need to reglaze.

May 28: Hooky

Today, dear friends, I played hookie. It was glorious.
Today’s hookie consisted of 9 holes of golf. I haven’t played golf for a long, long time. There were lots of bad shots, but a few good ones, too. I even had a putt for birdie (which, of course, I pushed to the right, which is what [...]

May 27: Dog House Daydreams

Dog House Daydreams

Originally uploaded by Mo Coffee

May 9th:Speaking Without a Head

Speaking Without a Head

Originally uploaded by mo_coffee2003

I’m pretty sure this is a self portrait.