by Gregory Smallwood | Aug 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
“Superheroes Assemble” was the costume theme for the Stampaway USA Preview Party three weeks ago. Didn’t see as many customer entries as I have some years, but several of the vendors went all out. Here are some of the best that I saw . ....
by Gregory Smallwood | Aug 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
I have traveled thousands of miles this year – haven’t even tried to count the number of states I have rolled through. At every show, there is at least one image that burns itself into my brain. Some are better than others – and this one is the...
by Gregory Smallwood | Aug 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
The other story that needs to be told before we can move forward (or at least bounce back and forth) started last November 2. I had just gotten off the phone with my friend Ben Andrews, who called to tell me that his prostate cancer surgery had been...
by Gregory Smallwood | Aug 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
I want to start by thanking all of you who responded to my request in the last post for direction on where to go next — and what to do with a cell phone full of pictures that go with untold show and travel stories from the past eight or nine months. The...
by Gregory Smallwood | Aug 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
It has been eight months since I wrote something for this blog. In some ways, it feels like eight days – in others, more like eight years. I pretty much went off the grid about the first of November after I got my bloodwork results with the unexpected...
by Gregory Smallwood | Dec 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
A lot of you know Connie Williams. If you don’t know her, but have ever attended a rubber stamp convention in the eastern U.S., you owe her a debt of gratitude – because I think hers was the first. As I understand it, Connie went to a convention in...
