Award winning, rising star, digital artist, Rene James created a portrait of Luna James, character in the book “Six Feet Apart: Love in Quarantine” by Elena Greyrock. At only 16 years old, Rene has already had her first art show “Prolusion” held at Norwalk, CT’s Creative Hub, MAD Lab on 11/21/2020. Read more about Rene …
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My Professor Dumped Me For C++
In Graduate School I majored in Information Technology (aka Computer Science back in the day). I took evening classes twice a week after work. I went to a Catholic University; where nuns frequently were seen in the cafeteria and in the hallways, which took me some time to get used to. I exceled in the …
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Paris, City of Love and Misunderstanding
I traveled to Paris alone and got lost in the Metro for hours. I was trying to get to the Louvre. When I asked a stranger in the Metro station how to get to the Louvre, he gave me instructions in the other direction, away from Paris, to a city that had a similar name to …
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Who is Miffy? Is she in the Best Children’s Book of All Time?
On one trip to Amsterdam I discovered Miffy. Miffy is a little girl rabbit in a series of picture books drawn and written by Dutch artist Dick Bruna. There are almost 30 Miffy books, produced in 1953, and they have sold over 85 million copies. Think of her as a kind of Hello Kitty from Japan, …
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