TheRomanticWay

If you’re new to web hosting, you won’t find a more awesome web hosting deal than AN Hosting. Right around Valentines Day in 2005 Holly and I registered our own domain, TheRomanticWay.com. It was the most amazing feeling to know that this domain was ours! We toasted with our friends in Moscow that night, Eric [...]

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Outsider artist and eBay entrepreneur, Andrew and his Bashkir bride Gulnara are living inspiration of what it really means to live the romantic life. We met Gulnara almost the first day we moved to Bashkortostan back in 1999. A few years later, Gulnara met Andrew on a matchmaking website. Soon they married, moved to LA [...]

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I am not a professional photographer. I’m an amateur. I like to think that my photography isn’t lacking skill, however, in the usual way we use the word amateur. My photography is as Atkinson used the term in Recollections of the Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants, amateur in the sense of being a “enthusiastic pursuer [...]

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For those of you artistic, creative and writerly types, I’ve found something that really gets my creative fluids gushing. Holly and I recently watched the film Chocolat with Johnny Depp a few nights ago. It’s like the thousandth time, but it never gets old. Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp and Judi Dench are absolute genius. While [...]

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Three pages, longhand, stream of thought, every morning, religiously. That’s what morning pages is. It’s not hard, but it’s nearly magical. Most things in life that have the most profound effect on fulfillment and joy are simple, free, and require consistency. I’ll show you a little of my journey with morning pages.

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Last weekend Holly and I toured studio after studio on the annual Studio Art Tour in our county. It was a thousand times better than a gallery tour because we visited our artist friends in their studios, homes, yards, basements, garden sheds, garages and old school houses. We hung with our companions where they lived [...]

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