Bad Spellers

That’s me!

I can not spell and I always tell my students that we all have talents, I have many, but spelling is not one of them. My Dad can’t spell either and he writes music, poetry, journal entries and he also substitute teaches as a hobby in his retirement. So I’ve always told myself it is an inherited trait that can’t be helped.

When I came across this article in the New York Times entitled The Price of Typos By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN and I saw this written in her piece I knew instantly it was a quote I would live by.

Bad spellers are a breed apart from good ones. A writer with a mind that doesn’t register how words are spelled tends to see through the words (s)he encounters — straight to the things, characters, ideas, images and emotions they conjure.

I like to think I am exactly that – well said!

Food & Ink

I have a new weekly feature at The Phoenix New Times Chow Bella called Food & Ink. I am eating and drinking and doing a drawing about it. Every single day for the next year.

Check it out Every Friday. Here is this weeks installment: Ribs and a Gin & Tonic at Hillstone

I will also place the individual drawings into my flickr set: Food & Ink

Modern Phoenix Week

Whether you’re a longtime fan of Phoenix’s world-class, mid-century modern architecture or you’re a newbie to its design and architecture scene, your week to show off, catch up, and get your fix is coming.

April 9 through 17, Modern Phoenix and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art are teaming up for the seventh annual Modern Phoenix Week.

This year’s event is in Sunnyslope, a community filled mid-century modern homes that’s celebrating its 100th anniversary (You can read more about Sunnyslope in this week’s Surreal Estate by Robert Pela.), and it’s action-packed, to say the least.

On tap for this year are parties, home tours, lectures, and expos that are likely to make any mid-century modern-o-phile drool.

Read more about it from my piece at Jackalope Ranch: Modern Phoenix Week Hits Phoenix in April