Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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It only takes a second or less to have your life dramatically changed, doesn’t it?
Monday night, at about 8 pm the phone rang… English being my second language, I still have a hard time with the beginning words of strangers on the phone, so I didn’t really understand who this person was, but he was […]
The last time we visited Joey’s family in Houston, Sharon (Joey’s mom), Joey and I were discussing the latest news about a new war starting in the Middle East. After I articulated some hot sports opinions, we got engaged in a very interesting discussion.
I was saying that if I could choose a parallel universe, and […]
Dear Yaw Osafo-Ansong,
Congratulations on the recent launch of your web design business and web site “MQStudios”. As you well know, my name is Maria Q. Stultz, and I own a small but successful web design business named “MQStudio“, operating online since Aug, 2003.
Mr. Osafo-Ansong… May I call you Alantee?… I am extremely surprised by the […]
Every day, with fresh supplies of morning energy to tackle precious billable work, several new urges attack mercilessly. I blame this year’s SXSWi and having joined the blogosphere for the sudden explosion of some of these…
Reading all new blog posts in my Sage bar
Checking to see if anybody replied directly to any of my very […]
Maybe if I start posting an entry for every watercolor painting I’ve ever done, I’ll run out of artwork so quickly that I’ll have to move my lazy butt and start painting again…
I’ll start not with my best piece, but with the only one I’ve painted from life, outdoors. I’m always telling my mom to […]
The first time I saw one of these things, I was in college. People were crowded around a couple of framed images for sale, and you could hear silence followed by sudden expressions of excitement as soon as someone was able to “get in” and see the hidden 3D image. You could also hear the […]
This is a postcard I received two months ago from my doctor in Dallas reminding me of my annual checkup.
Being now in a different city, and given our self-imposed deadline to start trying for a baby, this meant several “awful” things for me: 1) I needed to find a new doctor and make an appointment; […]
It’s funny how some times the simplest things can amaze you…
From all seven of you, oh wonderful regular readers, only one knows that my “bonsai” bean plant is producing fruit. He knows this, because he lives with me, and since the moment I discovered a tiny bean pod attached to a flower, I’ve been pointing […]
Somewhere in Italy, in the summer of 1996 I made up my mind…
Back home, my boyfriend awaited me. Six months before, he had gotten back from an exchange trip to the U.S., coming back very ready to marry me… or find a place and move in with me… anything to put me out of the […]
Without any doubt, Ralph Lauren’s “Hopsack” paint color was absolutely gorgeous in our previous home. During the weeks before moving to Salt Lake City neither of us was thinking clearly, and in a frantic attempt to pick a color for the new house, we went with Hopsack again… Craso error, since this house doesn’t have […]
This has been such a good week, it probably deserves to be acknowledged…
Last week, trying to get some acid-free varnish to finish my tryptic pieces, I bought a Krylon product that claimed to be “not yellowing”, but it didn’t say it was actually archival quality. Unable to answer the cuchi-cuchi question, the sales person suggested […]
As if somebody had heard our desperate scream for CSS customization on WordPress.com blogs, a CSS Editor plugin has just been released. It allows you to modify the stylesheet of any WP.com theme, and upload any images you want to use with your CSS. Bottom line: You can modify the design of the theme as […]
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