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I’m done with the 4 day intensive at PNCA. Thanks again to those that helped contribute money to send me, it was worth every penny as I learned so much about the Children’s publishing world. It would have taken so much longer to learn so much information on my own. My teacher, Victoria Jamieson, did…

I lucked out and found enough supporters to pay for a class about Writing and Illustrating for Children’s Publications at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. I’m now registered and ready to learn! Thanks so much to all that have made it possible! I’ll be working on thank-you letters and sketches over the next week…

A call for assistance! I’m using IndieGoGo to help me raise money to go to a class at the Pacific Northwest College of Art so that I can study Writing and Illustrating for Children’s Literature. I can’t afford to pay for the class out of my own pocket and don’t want to accrue more debt….

Today, Bike Parade! The Coloring book is available to purchase as a digital download for $8. You can download the PDF and print any of the pages as many times as you like as long as it is for your personal use. With every purchase of the book, a snail gets its wings! It’s a…

I’m so in love with Unclutterer Blog and the related Flickr Pool. The Unitaskers often blow my mind that people will pay money for this stuff. Life the plastic banana slicer, because slicing banana is apparently WAY too hard. I’ve been reading Unclutterer for two years now and have gleamed great inspiration in simplying and…

Personally, I would just get bored running around a half-mile loop for 5647 laps, but the idea of running 3100 miles greatly appeals to me. http://www.3100.ws/ I have nothing but utter awe for any participant that completes this race. I still can’t believe it was won for a sixthm time in a row by Aalto….

Push Yourself. Try Harder. Don’t Take the Easy Way. Isn’t Tic Tac Toe a simple game? It didn’t take very long to learn to play or get constant stalemate, so you move on to something harder. Chutes and Ladders, Life, Chess, Risk… You keep moving on to something more challenging. See Spot Run was a…

“Really? You need 8 flashlights?” It has been nearly a year since I left my IT Help Desk job to pursue a career as a Personal Fitness training. An endeavor with little success. Since my employment-suicide, I’ve been selling off the majority of my possessions. Bicycles, furniture, most boooks, all CDs, all DVDs, toys, electronics,…

Run as Naked as Possible. Leave the watch, GPS, iPod, backpack, heart rate monitor, pedometer, or whatever other gadgets you would normally take on a run and just get out there and run! So many people, myself included, focus so much on the exercise and training aspect of running that we get caught up in…

I don’t know why I didn’t think of putting all three of my blogs back onto Blogspot and just point the domain names to them…sheez… I’m currently working on three blogs, two of which are about my passions, and I might add a fourth blog about Art. TomasQuinones.com – This blog about me and my…

This post was originally written and posted for Car-Free Portland Day, but I thought I should also put it on my personal blog since it is long over-due for an update. In October 2006, my car of 4 years started developing engine problems again…the same problems that have plagued it every year since its purchase…

Sometimes I just indulge in the pleasure of enjoying a good video game. Sometimes, I admit, I indulge a little too much like the alcoholic that can’t stop after one beer. However, it’s not a chemical dependency that leaves me with a nasty hangover, but it is something that requires an opposite, a ying to…