Art Nouveau as a style is pretty striking. With its flowing lines and abstract shapes, it sometimes looks almost like it’s something out of science fiction. But what is it and where did it come from? History Art Nouveau began in Europe as a direct response to the Industrial Revolution in the late 19th century. […]

The layout for my art booth at my most recent market, ArtsGoggle in Fort Worth TX. I sell prints, stickers, bookmarks, and jewelry. The initial intention was to make it feel like a Victorian living room, and I even took the original velvet curtains from my own living room, though I have replaced those with […]
I recently rediscovered the joys of reading. Like many gifted and talented undiagnosed neurodivergent kids in the 90s and Naughties, fantasy worlds were my haven from a world that didn’t understand me. I burned through books faster than a furnace set to 451 degrees Fahrenheit, nearly clearing out my local library’s JFIC and YA sections […]
In total the Soviet Union sent seventy-one dogs up to space during the thirty years of 1957 and 1987, in a frantic race with the United States to establish their superiority in space technology. Though public interest began in 1951, it wasn’t until six years later that the Soviets won their first victory, on October […]