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I’ve celebrated my 18th, 21st, 40, 50, 60 and 65th birthdays. Now I am soon to be celebrating my 70th. I have never even considered acknowledging certain birthdays let alone celebrating them. For instance, I couldn’t really care about my 23rd, 47th or 62nd birthdays. Its seems if your age ends in a zero or a five then it must be celebrated. A bit like a human tombola!

The expression or saying, “Good enough to eat” can apply in many circumstances. In my experience it is something lovers say to each other when the romantic mood beckons. Also, from an artistic perspective then art can be very tasty and scrumptious and oh so lovely that it feels, “Good enough to Eat”!

What do you do when things go wrong? For me I hate myself and spiral into a “I am useless” mode. I know, I know all about buzz words and phrases such as “we have to fail to appreciate success”. Its still a pain and can be difficult to live with…

When I look back at photographs of all the glassware that I have made over the years one thing struct me. I have made quite a few glass models of buildings. Closer examination of my photographic archives reveals of these buildings the majority appear to be churches…

This blog isn’t. By that I mean here I cheat as the following is not intended to be a blog as it’s an editorial for a glass magazine that I edit. Its intention was always for the magazine which is called a Journal as its posher than jut plain magazine…

I was going to write that death is funny and weird buts its not. Its life that is funny and weird. Death is predictable, well kind of and natural. To live is to die (eventually)…