Bird migration season is well underway. And that means many of them will lose their lives just trying to live.

As I peer through the crystal ball into 2025, I’ve decided that getting a handle on perfection must be one of my main goals.

You can almost set your clock by it: almost every year, right at Thanksgiving, we have a major snowstorm. This year’s was right on schedule.

One of the things that makes a good, timeless story is depth—that is, many ideas or themes interlaced that will stand the test of time.

I recently had two glass students, Kim and Bill, from Salida, in for a Beginning Fused Glass with Micro-kilns class, and we had a great...

I came across a fascinating article in the online magazine Ars Technica, written by Jennifer Ouellette about a nerdy glass topic:...

The Crooked Cauldron brings natural, high-quality CBD goods and local artists together under one roof.

Got a pair of photochromic glasses nearby (or on your face)? How about some CorningWare® tucked away in your kitchen? Or some Visions®...

Things break at the most inopportune times.

The first time I saw Joe Randall’s photo of the old railroad tunnels north of Buena Vista at sunset, I knew I’d have to try and re-create...

Whenever archeologists or laypeople come across ancient glass, it's exciting. The fact that glass can and does survive the centuries at...

If you love glass, if you're interested in it, or even if you've never really given this common yet amazing material much thought, this...

Feeling the need for some creative stimulation? Classes offer benefits you may not have though about before.

UPDATE at the Bottom of this post . . . I love Fall, and I’ll never understand why we don’t capitalize the seasons, but we do so for the...

This blog post starts a series I've had on my mind for some time. It occurred to me that the kiln, in addition to being the tool to shape...

Every now and then, the only thing left to do with a glass piece that just cannot be fixed is to smash it to smithereens (whatever those...

I recently added the option of finishing glass pieces with various grades of loose grit to my glasswork. It’s been an educational and...

At some point, I realized how similar fixing the bird bath and Cheryl's treatments seemed.

In this current climate of "social distancing," it's easy to get sucked down the belly-button drain and stay there.

There is an old widespread legend that a nobleman invented red glass by tossing a coin into a glass batch. If only it were that easy . . .