Remaking the world

Because I’m me, people send me stuff like this. Artist Wendy Gold uses “vintage globes” to make works she calls ImagineNations™. Apparently they’re quite popular. She does a similar decoupage treatment on maps, too. I like her warning: All...

The world of like the 1980s

Despite my grouchiness, Donorschoose keeps sending me thank-you notes.  Despite my grouchiness, I keep finding them wonderful.  Today I received a batch of cards from the classroom of Mrs. Horton, where I had contributed to the purchase of a globe, and apparently some...

Updating the globe

It restores my faith in search engines when I get an interesting comment on a years-old blog post.  Karen scolded me for allegedly mixing up Croatia and Yugoslavia in my June 2008 post about Grgic wines.  I think Karen simply missed the tense of the story I was...