Class: Creating Effective Characters Thumpthumpthump…this was one of the Lifelong Learning classes that made my heart race. The anxiety kind, not the overjoyed and giddy kind. I have observed, appreciated, and absorbed characters, but trying to develop and write a story about fictional characters would have left me with 200 pages of blank, or worse, …
Class: Starting a Craft Food Business I can’t tell you how many people have told me, “wow, you really heated up those frozen organic peas nicely!” Okay, it’s zero. The number is zero. Meal preparation has never been at the top of my skill list. I do have one kind-of-from-scratch recipe that inspires folks to …
Class: Native Plant Propagation I’ve been burned countless times after discovering cute new unfamiliar sprouts in our yard. At first, I would get hopeful that some lovely native wildflower had made its way to our land through the sheer force of nature. But these sprouts were never lovely wildflowers. Once again I turned to Lifelong …
Class: Bike Workshop II For my second bike workshop, Bike Workshop II, I again had to select a bike to bring to class. My cat bike had made the cut for the first workshop. However, I realized that its mechanical tune-ups may have reached a point of diminishing returns. I also think I was a …
Class: Improve your Photography in Ten Easy Steps Hello class, meet your camera. Don’t be shy — getting to know your camera is the first step to improving your photography. To get familiar with our cameras, Rodger, our instructor, encouraged us to push some buttons, turn the dial, and look in our manuals to see …
Class: Waterwise Landscaping You’d think we live in an arid climate with my water fixation. Oh wait, we do. Doesn’t it feel like this year we’ve gone from hills of snow piled all over our yards to dry, dry, dry? My irrigation class helped me figure out how I needed to revise and add to …
Class: Fused Glass My heart’s all aflutter for the sparkly, colorful meltiness of fused glass. I knew I was crushing about 30 minutes into the class when I felt my heart racing and I started feeling a bit giddy. This was somewhere among learning to cut the glass, hearing the delicate clinking sound of snapping …