Weekly Editorial
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A New Year of Woodworking
One advantage of reaching the august age of 50 years old is that I have become comfortable with my flaws and humble regarding my talents.
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Postcards from the Future
Last eZine I talked about turning 50 and asked the faithful what was in store for me as I (hopefully) continued to check off birthdays into the future.
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The Way of All Flesh (and Woodworkers)
This coming Sunday, December 11th, is my 50th birthday. Which is of no great importance in the big scheme of things, but growing older has affected my woodworking.
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Little Shop of Horrors
Some of you, with better memories than I possess, may remember that this summer – with much determination and bravado — I declared a firm date of the end of September to clean up my garage. (With the idea being that I could set it up properly as a workshop.) It turned out to be a stroke of good fortune that I failed to assign a year notation to that September deadline.
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The Winner Is?
It may be because we are blessed with an excellent public education system, or because we are cursed with exceptionally long and foul winters – but regardless of the cause – Minnesota is a publishing hotbed.
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Just JETing Along!
This special eZine is sponsored by WMH Tools … which you probably know better as JET, Powermatic, Performax and Wilton. When I read Michael Dresdner’s interview with WMH’s Steve Erbach, they talked about the long history of these companies, which threw me for a bit of a loop.
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Flat-out Good!
Take a look in our Woodworker’s Journal September/October 2005 print issue, and you’ll find we have a whole bunch of cool things happening.
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Sawdust Schools
We had a tradition at my house each year on the first day of school. Like countless other parents, we’d take a picture of the kids – new school clothes and shiny clean faces — standing under the maple tree in the front yard.
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Louisiana Blues
If you are like me, you’ve spent more than a bit of time recently thinking about those affected by Hurricane Katrina.
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Brothers and Sisters in Messiness
I received a ton of e-mail (regarding my garage and its current disheveled state as discussed in the last eZine) from you folks saying, in essence, that I am not alone.
