The daughter of two artists, Pittsburgh painter, Mara Light, does her parents proud.
©Mara Light
Glimpsed Beauty
Author Archives: Donna from One Beautiful Thing
Good Day, Gdańsk
Vu by Fruit Bijoux (photo by Marianna Korman)
vu [vy]
adj
a meaning of coolness
“you are soo vu”
A Rainbow in Someone’s Cloud
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.”
©Academy of Achievement
Stormé Weather
This weekend, the world lost the luminous gay rights pioneer, my friend* Stormé DeLarverie.
Gallery Walls For Dummies!
Don’t Blink
Playing dress-up with Tal Peleg.
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Really Little Boxes on a Hillside . . .
The Miracle of Birth
An Attack of Etsomnia™ Volume I
et·som·ni·a (/etˈsämnēə/), noun, 1. a sleep disorder caused by obsessive Etsy browsing. 2. the surprising arrival of weird handmade merchandise ordered in one’s sleep.
Photo credit: Alice Hutchinson / Foter
Oh, Etsy, I wish I could quit you. Continue reading
Rainbows and Kittens and Youthful Exuberance
©Katerina Raed
Baton Twirling on Acid
Drinkable Gifts Only
dpotera / Foter / Creative Commons
I have a big birthday coming up this year. A BIG birthday. Continue reading
Pas de Duke:
Hansel and Gretel Sold Separately
©Corcoran Group Real Estate
Cats and the Internet
It has often been said that if you have to explain a 
joke, it isn’t funny. This joke doesn’t need explaining. Continue reading
Death by a Million Paper Cuts
The 10-Month Pregnancy
©Ashlee Wells Jackson
My second daughter was born a month late. Continue reading
Genius/Artist/Weirdo HR Giger Dies at 74
Birth Machine ©HRGiger.com
Today, we lost a brilliant mind. Continue reading
I Didn’t Even Know Stalinesque Was a Design Style
©Andrea Wyner for The New York Times
“I decided I wanted to design the apartment in the style of a senior bureaucrat of the early Stalin period,” said the owner, antiques dealer Sergei Bobovnikov, 47. Continue reading
My OBT 