Some people, my wife among them, hate airports, airplanes, and all the recycled-air and bustle of people hassle of air travel. I’m from an rare breed that loves airports, the smell of unburned kerosene, the rush of jet engines, the…
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Why I Love Downtown Airports
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Handmade Return
Aaaaand we’re back. A lovely hiatus up in Lake Tahoe where many lovely things happened in a lovely way, but let’s get to the handmade stuff. Today we’ll look at Vikingsholm, a magnificent work of craftsmanship poised at the head…
The Mad Kitchen Scientist
I couldn’t have been more than three years old. My brother, two years my senior, decided it would be a fantastic idea to get into all the ingredients in the pantry and I was the perfect man for the job. …
Nowhere/Somewhere
Handmade Blog is light this week because I’ve got another professional licensure exam (hopefully the last). But I’ll set my readers to an interesting task: visit the town of Tange, Nepal. Zoom in with Google Earth until you can see…
Charleston, South Carolina
It’s good to be a city near the water. You attract all sorts of types: pirates, traders, genteel folk. For over three hundred years Charleston has been an outpost of sorts, a classy and beautiful peninsula set in, well, godforsaken…
Flying With Toddlers: The Great Quandary
The last time we crossed the continent by air, Toddler Harbat was transitioning from baby to toddler. Better to take a direct flight, we thought. Better to get it over with in one go so she could sleep, maybe wander…
Back and At’Em
Handmade Blog is back! I had planned on putting up many more clues, pictures, and clever and heartwarming posts but a vacation is a vacation, after all. Here’s one more clue to the location: It is very humid, very hot,…
Handmade Abroad
This week Handmade Blog is away from home base, but here are a few clues for you to guess where. Here’s the first one: This is a normal inhabitant of these parts. I think it eats birds and small children.…
