Refill stations can be inside bars, restaurants, hotels, shops and in public spaces (water ATM’s or public fountains). Whether you are a citizen or a tourist, look for refill window stickers or use one of the Refill Apps to find the nearest station. We recommend you to use one of the...
You can see in the pic below where I added some water to my brush to add a darker tone. I didn’t want drips so I just let it dry. This is just the Cadmium Red: I don’t know about you, but I associate red with hearts, cardinals, blood, roses, or Santa Claus. I wanted to...
But from a true rockhound, the idea that I can go into a dealer’s inventory and pick out something I LOVE is definitely exciting in a way that a gift card to the local fashion boutique will never be. So how do you find the right company to go through? First, decide what kind of...
(A break from the election, for those who can bear to tear themselves away from contemplating Tuesday’s Presidential Election, and the judicial murder of squirrels.) I was briefly nonplussed when a question for me showed up on my message stack on Quora last week – what did I think of ...
Our next choice was probably my favorite: chicken and mushroom dumplings. I’d never had these before; they were either baked or pan-griddled (I believe the latter) with a very light filling inside. They were heavenly. Next were pork potstickers, done about as well as potstickers can be...
(which proclaims that this is the year that ingenuity stands high on the list!), two stickers from a recent comedy show, two love notes, one watercolor painting, one recipe and one autograph. All these are held together by a collection of magnets that my niece, Olivia, made for me when...
“kitchen” is a single beat-up toaster oven churning out warmmontaditos—small canapés—“plated” on squares of wax paper. Son of a well-known local journalist, Emilio pours his creativity into penning aphorisms on stickers—“Joy makes us invulnerable,”“Haste destroys all tenderness”—and...
You could find it inscribed on buttons, bumper stickers, t-shirts, of course, now it has gone the way of the “Kilroy was here”. For the younger audience, I’m just waxing nostalgic. Of course, after many years of being alive and consuming Sartre’s play NO EXIT, I understand the ...