A family tradition

Many years ago, my Mom helped Alyson and I create a special gift for Dad. We went to Color Me Mine, a chain of shops for the commercial buying and painting of porcelain goods ranging from dinnerware to sculptures of robots and dragons that are put through a kiln on-site. In my experience it's a …

Campus Architecture

If there was anything I learned while touring college campuses about three years ago, it was to appreciate the architecture that each campus offered. For me aesthetics were a fairly big driving factor in deciding where I wanted to go to school. It sounds somewhat petty and shallow I know, but I enjoy wandering and …

A Day of Fine Arts

After a rare day spent almost entirely outdoors at the Manhattan Beach Pier and at Wilson Park in Torrance, I'm pretty beat. I'm also pretty sunburnt at that, so I'm sure I'll come to regret not putting on sunscreen once my face starts to seriously burn up. 'Tis the unfortunate truth of being an overtly …