A Little Ink More or Less

Here of the Chalice feast staff and servers. Probably 2013. Photo by  Jared Bluestein A recent thread on the SCA Facebook group asked p...

The barter system is alive and well if you are willing to believe in it. Occasionally I get a request for a commission piece and the reques...

"this is the last day of our acquaintance.  I will meet you later in somebody's office .  I'll talk but you won't listen t...

I was recently commissioned to create a piece for a wedding. My friends John and Maurissa were getting married and wanted a piece of ...

I do not mind who you love, that is your heart. I do not care to which god you pray, that is your faith. I do not think about the color of...

This heart is a cramped and heavy place best kept laced tight as corsets and gallows knots. Just one small cut an incision of doubt....

An attack of kisses. Photo by Jared Bluestein You toss a smile in the direction of a new person, loan someone a piece of garb, thank s...

Currently, three of my original pieces are hanging in a staff art show at my work. The show is entitled "Creatively Tapped" which ...

Photo by Jonathan Sidwell It seems that we learn some of our best lessons from failure. This is a story of reaching for the stars and fi...

Author' note: Hi, I'm the author. This post was written 5 years ago before a particular set of repeating patterns emerged in seve...

A pink color morph of Passiflora incense . A very rare sighting. This year I scoffed at the idea of a New Years resolution to lose 10 p...

Unto the ladies of my SCA household, my lady friends, my lady co-workers, my lady friends I have yet to meet, the young ladies that orbit in...