My Glass Journey

Move over Zentangle and make way for stained glass art!

Touchy Feet

My next toastmaster speech project is supposed to be a “touching speech,” It’s practicing how to convey emotion through storytelling. Instead of just saying “Billy felt sad because he wasn’t invited to Joey’s birthday party”, you’d tell the story of Billy watching his friends pass by on their way to Joey’s party and wondering why […]

Negative Imprint

Today’s post is probably going to be a mishmash of whatever pops into my mind as I sit here. I’m at a park, watching the bright green grass appear from beneath the melting snow. We got several inches overnight but already the sun has chased away most of it. I’ve been thinking about taking you, […]

Show Me Your Hands

Yesterday I found out that one of my followers on Instagram is a devotee. Shit. I knew this might happen when I went public with the blog and put a couple of videos on YouTube. My first reaction to finding out that someone is looking at pictures of me solely because they think my deformed […]

Who I am and Why I’m Here

Hello! Happy New Year! One of my objectives in 2016 is to improve my blog by posting more often, posting more interesting content and reaching more people. I also want to take the time to read other people’s blogs and make some blog buddies. (If that’s a thing… if not, I’m going to make it […]

Thoughts on Hand Transplants

I’m currently sitting at the Mazda dealership while my car gets it’s 5,000 mile service. It’s crazy that I’ve already driven that many miles, but it adds up quickly when you’re zoom-zooming around New England. The dealer just walked in after parking that red Miata and said “You could be driving that! You’d fit […]

Lobster Girl

2023 Update: This post has been getting a lot of action lately. I haven’t figured out why; is it being referenced somewhere? Are lobster girls trending? I don’t know. I wrote the post below on a whim one rainy Saturday afternoon because we’d been watching Carnivale, and it was on my mind. It’s not my […]

Sunday Funday Post: Zentangle

Two things I have been getting right lately are that I’ve been meditating each morning and I’ve started Zentangling. Whatsy-tangling, you ask? Zentangling. I first heard about it sometime last year, when my friend Kristina posted some of her drawings online and mentioned that she had been doing it to relieve stress. I was immediately jealous that […]

Exploring Ectrodactyly with EEC Chick

As the name implies, ectrodactyly is a prominent feature of EEC. Ectrodactyly just means missing fingers (or toes). If you ask me about it, I’ll say that I don’t think about ectrodactyly much and that it really hasn’t been that big of a deal in my life. Which in some ways is true. It has not caused me much physical […]

Where it all began – The story of my birth.

It was a dark and stormy night… No, just kidding. It was a sweltering midsummer afternoon when my mother’s contractions began. My father’s cousins had come over to swim in the pool that day and through the window my mother could hear them laughing and splashing as she lay on the bed. She would have […]