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Finished reading “Jim Henson: The Biography”

Wow. I just finished this truly inspiring book. It is one of the best artist-biographies I’ve ever read. So thankful I got to read it in the midst of my sabbatical. It gave me loads of ideas. Now I have to spend the next five hours transcribing all the notes I marked...

The Surrealism of a Sabbatical (aka Sabbatical Ho!)

Today is the first day of school for the new fall semester… and for the first time ever, I’m working at home. It’s so surreal to be on my sabbatical (finally!) while knowing that the CCAD world is going on without me. It’s half humbling… and half liberating. I get to...

my summer re-education process

I  continued my summer re-education process with taking online Lynda.com training on the foundations of layout and composition. Thanks to Lynda.com, I learn so much clearly when I watch these visual/ audio video tutorials. And I can watch these tutorials each day from...

Cloud Gazing with my daughter…

8-13-14: This evening, my daughter Alyssa and I bonded in a way we never had before: we laid down on our backs together on the grassy backyard, looked straight up at the puffy white clouds above, and went cloud-gazing for a whole 15 minutes! She didn’t want us to stop...

Summer video editing progressing ahead

So I spent the entire day doing work from home, which was good to do. I looked at online video tutorials on DSLR cameras. I spent half the day writing up my proposal for taking the Airstream mobile home out on the road with Tom and I. After taking an hour long...