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Trayvon Martin and The Curse of Slavery

If you are not familiar with Trayvon Martin’s story I will sum it up briefly. Martin was a 17-year-old unarmed black male that was shot dead by a 28-year-old neighborhood-watch volunteer George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012. This is an oversimplified version, but you can Google Trayon Martin for all the details. Martin’s story is [...]

Welcome 2012

Welcome 2012

I know we are already 13 days (Happy Friday the 13th) into 2012, but I just started back to work Monday. It’s been a good week organizing, planning, updating my show schedule, working on websites, and getting back into teaching. I’m teaching again for the first time in two years.  I needed it;  I was [...]

What would you do for a Klondike bar?

When I first started as a full-time potter, I took every commission I could.  You want a replica of a vessel from National Geographic? No problem! You want a butter dish that holds a whole pound of butter? It’s your arteries! I would grit my teeth and accomplish whatever a custom wanted.  It wasn’t a [...]