It's A Fine Day (A Juggling Video)
I created this video in 2006 to teach myself how to use video editing software—it is not by any means an impressive display of juggling. All the actual juggling is just the most basic of things—the hardest things in this video I think are a short run of Mills Mess and another short clip of Dan passing 7 clubs with me. So don’t expect to be blown away by my mindblowing juggling talent, as I don’t have it. I do hope that you enjoy the video, however…
A Juggling Romance--How Dan and Katherine Met (smaller video)
This is the video that played (partially) before the ceremony at our wedding (though I did add some stuff later, since I had some time). Dan and I met in 2004 at a juggling festival in Buffalo, NY. This is a retelling of that story, with some…err…artistic liberties taken. And fancy special effects. Very fancy.
A Juggling Romance--How Dan and Katherine Met (full-sized video)
This is the video that played (partially) before the ceremony at our wedding (though I did add some stuff later, since I had some time). Dan and I met in 2004 at a juggling festival in Buffalo, NY. This is a retelling of that story, with some…err…artistic liberties taken. And fancy special effects. Very fancy.
May 2008 Newsletter
Well it’s been a while since the last newsletter. As far as the website goes, I’ve upgraded the software I use to run it, and after working out a bug where all of the titles vanished, it seems to be quite stable. I’ve added a few features. One is a copy&paste bit at the bottom of each article on the off chance anyone wanted to link to it. Another is an additional search box at...
September 2007 Newsletter
Well it has certainly been an eventful summer. Some of it has been good, some of it has been bad. On a personal front, I relocated from the Atlanta, Georgia suburbs to the Cleveland, Ohio suburbs with my son and the cats and all of our stuff. I’m trying to sell the house in Georgia now. We’re now renting a house together with Dan, and so far it’s going really well.
On the travel front,...
Live Webcam
Note: while I used to have the webcam on any time I was in the room, I now turn it on mainly when I’m doing something like working on a painting. You can visit the webcam archive if you like.
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The Candy Corn Incident
I’m not sure how old I was, but I can’t have been older than about 8 or 9. It was near Halloween and my mom, or maybe Sonia, had given me a bag of candy corn. At the time this was one of my favorite candies.
I had been given the absurd limitation of two pieces per day. Considering how tiny these are, and that most people eat them by the fistful, it was nearly...
Taos Skiers Beware
I was 11 the Christmas my mother gave me my own pair of skis and told me she was taking me to Taos. I had never been skiing and I was very excited. I can’t remember if it was a business trip, but I think it probably was. Most of my childhood travel that didn’t involve visiting relatives involved tagging along with my mom on business.
Taos was having a bad year for snow. The...
Misty the Wonder Horse
When I was growing up, my godmother, Barrie, had a horse named Misty. She was all white and generally very friendly. One of my earlier memories of her was being totally grossed out when she licked my hand and the spit foamed up. I’ve always been an animal lover, and horses are no exception. I loved to ride Misty when I got the chance…
Oddly, Misty sometimes had other ideas.
When I was three or...
I Survived a State Mental Hospital
My mom talked my (now-ex)husband into committing me to the mental ward when I was 5 months pregnant. I’d gone off my medication (Lithium and Paxil) and kinda flipped out. What I needed, of course, was my medication (which I apparently refused to take, but after a few hours of TV or something I probably would have taken willingly). Then I would have calmed right down. After sitting around the ER for about 45 minutes...