Fun Workshop

I had the sincere pleasure of teaching a group of book artists a few techniques for successful gelatin plate printmaking. I haven't taught an actual class since I retired from teaching mathematics at our local community college and I had to resist giving a quiz at the end of class. These artists didn't need a quiz because their work was just beautiful. Workshop details are on the North Redwoods Book Arts Guild blog.

I managed to get home just in time for our 6.5 magnitude earthquake. I've been through a number of them and this one really shook. We heard things hitting the floor and amazingly, nothing was broken. My sister's house in Eureka was really damaged, they had bookcases fall and crush things—fortunately not people or pets. A lot of her glass canned goods fell and broke; they were unable to clean them up because the water pipe was ruptured under the house. We were able to fill one of our big water containers from our rafting adventures and take it to Eureka to help. The city was mostly dark and people were walking in all directions—were they afraid to be inside or looking for help? I was raised in earthquake country but will never get used to them. This YouTube video may give you some idea of what it was like for people in Eureka: