Collecting

Billy Cowan: the Angel with a halo

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California Angels Billy Cowan with a halo over his head

This 1972 Topps baseball card, with Billy Cowan of the California Angels, has always been a favorite in my baseball card collection. The photographer must have had a good sense of humor, to have Cowan pose in this exact location, allowing the halo in the background to be perfectly positioned over his head! Curious about … Read more

Making art from old postcards

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my collection of vintage postcards from the 1980s

I pulled out a box of old postcards from the late 1970s and early 1980s the other day and started looking through them. These were postcards that I had bought as a kid on family vacations (many of which involved riding in the far back of a station wagon without any seat belts … how … Read more

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