On My Mind, Miscellaneous Thoughts Why do people shop? Why do we buy clothes we don’t wear, books we don’t read, food we don’t eat? Is it wishful thinking? Will this be the time I read The Economist cover to cover, or at all? Is it the act of shopping itself? The act of buying?Continue reading “Why Do We Buy Things We Don’t Need? MEPSA Annual 2018”
Category Archives: Books
Christmas Gift
Off Topic I can’t buy everyone a book, so the gift is the recommendation. A Christmas Cornucopia: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Yuletide Traditions by Mark Forsyth (Penguin 2016) Author’s book announcement, Inky Fool: A Christmas Cornucopia. May I also recommend his blog, Inky Fool. He hasn’t posted often in recent years, but youContinue reading “Christmas Gift”
AlphaBooks 2018
Graphic Design Zigby Camps Out, Brian Patterson [Letter Art, AlphaBooks: Z is for Zigby] The Gypsies, Jan Yoors [Letter Art, AlphaBooks: Y is for Yoors] Winning Colors, Elizabeth Moon [Letter Art, AlphaBooks: X is for Xavier] The Horse’s Name Was … , Terri A. Wear [W is for Wear] A Special Kind ofContinue reading “AlphaBooks 2018”
AlphaBooks, A is for Akrill
Graphic Design Not Quite A Horsewoman by Caroline Akrill Illustrated by Anne Pilgrim Allen 1982, 2009 Read. Non-fiction. Inkscape. Grid & triangles. Thank you for reading, Katherine Walcott
Boosting The Signal, Book Reviewers Wanted
Want to read a book? I have no desire to read books for review. I have more than enough to read. Nor do I wish to turn this into a review site. Plenty of other places on the Internet talk about books. However, from time to time, there are books I would like to promote.Continue reading “Boosting The Signal, Book Reviewers Wanted”
AlphaBooks, B is for Bonnie
Graphic Design Hold Your Horses Bonnie Timmons Workman 2003 If the cartoons look familiar, Timmons drew the comics for the TV show Caroline in the City. Favorite page is where she compares horse breeds to cars, for example: Thoroughbred/Ferrari – Fast, sleek, a nice ride when not in the shop. And so on.Continue reading “AlphaBooks, B is for Bonnie”
AlphaBooks, C is for Calkins
Graphic Design Lady On The Hunt Clinch Calkins with drawings by R. J. Davidson 1950 Harper 1940 Bought from Frost Pocket Farm via AbeBooks.com. In my TBR pile, but realistically so far down as to never reach daylight. Calkins appears to be a Very Serious writer, who “also published two novels satirizing theContinue reading “AlphaBooks, C is for Calkins”
Virtual Brush Box 