The idyllic wintertime scene that I painted for you in my last entry quickly turned into something less than ideal when we lost power to our house the very next day (Valentine’s Day). The snow that I wrote about was followed by freezing rain, which ultimately proved to be too much for the power lines […]
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I first discovered Joe Van Cleave under the same circumstances that so many others have — I was searching for information on typewriters. My curiosity about typewriters was still in the earliest stages back then. Unlike most of the other resources that I was locating at that point in time, Joe’s content kept popping up in
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There are celebrities among all walks of life — that includes the typewriter community of course. While Tom Hanks happens to be a very well known celebrity who loves typewriters, I view Richard Polt as a bonafide “typewriter celebrity”. Richard wrote what many have come to view as the seminal book on how so many
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One of the things I hoped to accomplish with this blog, even before launching it, was to feature some of the personalities who are active in the typewriter community. I wanted to turn the tables on those who have worked so hard and given so much of their time to shine the spotlight on these
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Even though I had been typecasting for nearly a week, I did not realize that this was the case until typecasting was explained to me by my fellow Typewriter Club LIVE members. Similarly, I launched The Typewritemosphere, which is now officially part of the Typosphere before I was fully aware of what exactly the Typosphere
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I wanted to take this opportunity to wish anyone who might be reading this blog a happy new year. The fact that The Typewritemosphere has passed from one year into the next hardly seems worthy of celebration as it’s still just a week old at this point in time. However, the fact that we all
One of the reasons that I initially took an interest in photography is because I much preferred to be located behind the camera rather than in front of it, even at the young age of 8 years old. Similarly, I learned to play guitar by way of the fingerpicking style to compensate for the fact
