“The history of storytelling isn’t one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.” —Therese Fowler As a trained historian I am supposed to be used to telling stories, or at least interpretations of the evidence in a logical yet pleasing narrative. I must admit however that I have been …read in detail
Inspiration
So You’ve Heard of a Lazy Sunday, How About a Lazy Week?
In this week’s blog, I thought it might be interesting to take you on a journey through my week in woodworking. The only problem with doing that is that it was a completely unproductive week – we think it has to do with the fact that we were talking unionizing and the ‘Man‘ just cut …read in detail
Woodworkers WITH a Cause
It has been a little while since I last posted on the blog – we tried to convince him that it was for the best but he insists on subjecting his thoughts on the world – because I have been spending a little time with my extended family (monks actually get some vacation time) and …read in detail
Yuz got skillz
I was a strange kid. When I was in high school in the mid-nineties my peers were interested in watching Married with Children and playing on their PS1s. (I was still slumming it with my NES.) Sure I was happy to watch an episode of Married with Children; but if I flipped across PBS and …read in detail
Something Caught My Eye
I find it amazing how the inspirational process works. Though I am not sure if it always works the same way twice. One of the projects that I am looking to make is a candlebox. Originally it was meant to be a very simple affair. It was going to be for the Church because we …read in detail