TWKM Blog

About a year ago I read about To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) in the Prodigal Son Magazine. I checked out their site and the story really moved me. I think we all have known, know or have been someone who has gone through serious depression. When I read the story, I thought of my sister and how important it was to me that she knows how much I love her.

Ever since then it has been something in the back of my mind that I would love to support. I plan on supporting their work by buying some of their merch. They have stylish shirts and hoodies that stand out and make a statement.

You can support them too. Join me and nearly half a million other people for the 2nd annual TWLOHA Day today by writing “Love” on your arms. This is not an official TWLOHA event, but you can never go wrong by spreading the message of love.

Check out the Flickr Group, Facebook event and the official To Write Love on Her Arms website. Here’s some art that I did for the event:

I recently came across a reference to Aviary on Amber Mac’s blog and thought I should check it out. Since buying a MacBook I have been sans-Photoshop as I can’t really justify the cost for a Mac version of the software I have been using to create layouts and website designs for years. I have never been able to embrace GIMP, running it through the X11 windowing system on my MacBook frustrates me and I haven’t found a decent image editor that can replace Photoshop. Could a free online image editor be the solution I’ve been looking for? (more…)

My first blog post on my new blog on my new domain.

Really more to test and have my blog look like it will be used from time-to-time rather than to say anything meaningful.

I am currently working on a new layout for my blog and it has been quite the pain! Working to get the code XHTML compliant, the CSS working in all browsers and the graphical work to make it look good takes a lot more time than I anticipated but I am happy with the result so far. (more…)