October 14, 2009 — Izzy, in his new role as Marketing Director for Yesnoquilts, will joining Maria and me at Red Fox Books (28 Ridge Street, Glens Falls, N.Y., 12801 – 518 793-5352) for Artwalk, a celebration and display of various artists and their work. Maria will be showing and selling her quilts and potholders at Red Fox from 5 to 8 p.m., and other artists will be showing their work all over the Glens Falls downtown.
  It will be a neat evening, and Glens Falls also has some fine restaurants nearby.
  Izzy and Maria and I will be hanging out at the bookstore, and checking out some of the artists. Come by. It’s  great bookstore and a town that is really supporting artists who are, like librarians, under siege. I will be teaching my story-telling workshop right next door at the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council (LARAC) next Spring and Summer. Izzy has many admirers.

 Lenore and her (Maria’s) potholders. Redesign of Bedlamfarm.com today

 October 12, 2009 – As much as the animals here, bedlamfarm.com has been the create and inspirational locus for the Bedlam Farm enterprise, evolving constantly from words to photos to experience.
  The Imagineers at Mannix Marketing – especially the gifted Collin Badger, who gets the point of the site as well as anyone, have brought this blog along, reflected the stories, photos, experiences that have made what it is. They integrated the Hospice Journal, the Photo sites, Today at Bedlam Farm and other ideas. They designed the site, set up a sane e-mail mechanism, linked me up to Facebook and Twitter. Both have been very successful moves for me, and for this site, which continues to grow.
  Websites are no longer odd personal vanities, but for writers like me, critically valuable ways of connecting with readers, expressing ideas and selling books. I love this site, and work hard to upgrade and maintain, in words and photographs. I am reward by encouragment, support and book sales, the engine that pays for it all. And it is not cheap.
  I could write a funny book about my experiences with Mannix, a high-powered high tech Web design and maintenance outfit out of Glens Falls, N.Y. They are creative, response and patient. Thank God for them. They are available 24/7, are courteous and smart. They have received many hilarious – in retrospect – early morning phone calls from – in the Bedlam days – when the Farm Friends page looked like a TV soap opera, people appearing and vanishing overnight.
  Life has settled down, and so have I, and the website and Chris Archibee and Collin at Mannix have helped me reflect that in the blog. So sometime today, the site will be changing again. The Farm Journal will remain exactly at it is. When you come to the home page of the site, you will be greated by photographs that change constantly The site will be simpler, less cluttered and more focused on the Farm Journal – the heart of the site – and on the photography. Collin is working on a new way to collect, archive and display the thousands of photographs that have become as important as the words. Another way to tell a story.
  The idea is for the site to move forward along with my life, and be easier, more graphic and coherent. Hopefully, my life is going the same way. I am grateful to Collin, who has enormous skill and talent, and to boot, is nothing but a pleasure to work. He gets it.
  I am loving the farm more than ever these days. It is up for sale, but I hope it takes a couple of years. It’s home.