Foxglove Blog
Links >>

I finally decided to take a whole weekend off from work. Last month I was going to write an article about the benefits of taking personal time for yourself, but I had so much work to do that I never got around to it. I really do believe it’s true, but this particular rule never seems to apply to me.

This morning I was feeling a wee bit guilty about the emails piling up in my inbox. Determined not to do any “real” work, I decided that Sunday is a good day for cleaning out spam messages from my Yahoo account. Being the pack rat that I am, I can’t delete anything until I know it’s absolutely useless. So I gave the Rolling Stone email newsletter a once-over, and this article caught my eye: ” Rock Bloggin’: Kelly Clarkson and John Mayer Spill Their Guts on the Web “. (more…)

My dad went on vacation to Yellowstone Park and Mount Rushmore during July. He returned with over 1200 photos and a dozen video clips from the trip. While we were watching the seemingly neverending slideshow, he commented, “Wouldn’t this be so much better with music?” 

My dad is one of those people who does a lot for others and never really asks for anything in return. Anyway, he’s my dad, and he’s getting old. That’s why I’ve spent all of my spare time for the past two weeks turning his vacation photos into a full video production on 2 DVDs.

For those of you who have never attempted such a project, let me tell you that it is tedious and all-consuming. (more…)