I really, truly am trying to get myself back on track! So here’s a brief reading list for your enjoyment.

• Lydia Muell discusses at length what she’s been doing lately to stretch her glassworking skills.
• Glass Alchemy has a brand new blog — see what Henry has to say!
• Luann Udell has some great suggestions for out-of-the-ordinary jewelry displays. In the “small world” category, one of the displays she features is from the company founded by Judy Vilmain, experimental psychologist-turned-artist and a grad school classmate of mine until I dropped out of the psych program at U of Iowa!

In the “it’s a small world” category, DH got an email yesterday from his daughter.  She’d posted some of the pictures from our wedding on her MySpace page, and had gotten a message from one of her friends:  “Hey, I think I know your stepmother.”

Yep.  My stepdaughter’s friend B is a long-time co-worker at the college, having started as a student assistant in the Math department shortly after I started teaching there.  She became the department secretary, transferring to the Science department shortly before I moved to the Business department (which became the Business/Computer Science department).  We used to live not too far from each other, so during the last few years of the starter marriage she would cat-sit for me when we were all out of town.

I knew that B regularly attended the Georgia Renaissance Festival, but of course a lot of people do that.  Why would I ever think that she and my stepdaughter had connected several years back (perhaps even before DH and I met), as fans of the same band?

Just another odd coincidence in my life!