Reading Time: 2 minutes I need this time off so I can complete a history of the invention of Bubble Wrap. My interview with The History Channel is back on and I need to prepare. Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 14 — ‘Intermission’
Reading Time: < 1 minutes If it’s a toy — children and adults the world over seem to think it is — then I was probably the first kid to ever play with it. Continue reading Happy Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Suppose you were a synthetic rubber specialist who is developing a lightweight, permeable, waterproof fabric. Wouldn’t 1939 be a good time to get as far from Germany as possible? Continue reading The Bubble Wrap back story (Readers Digest Condensed Version)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Helping a friend launch her book on KDP taught her more about book publishing and me more about art. A win-win! Continue reading Week in Review: Week 48
Reading Time: 3 minutes Modern Thanksgivings are comic tragedies of tension, travel, parades, and commercialism. We put up with all this to focus on food and family. Where is faith? Continue reading Week in Review: Week 47
Reading Time: 3 minutes As part of my research into the back story of the creation of Bubble Wrap, I needed to connect the dots of how the two inventors met. I had a good timeline with documentation for Marc Chavannes, but not enough on my own father, Alfred Fielding. Continue reading Week in Review: Week 46
Reading Time: 2 minutes Research for my book and on the history of Bubble Wrap continues. Could inventor Marc Chavannes have had something the Nazis wanted? Continue reading Week in Review: Week 44
Reading Time: 2 minutes Postponing the History Channel interview let me dive deeper into the Bubble Wrap origin story. Meanwhile, the journals show I postponed work on the play for two years. Continue reading Week in Review: Week 42
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Sealed Air announced a new addition to its line of protective mailers. But despite the Bubble Wrap brand name, these bubbles presumably won’t pop. Continue reading When is a bubble not a bubble?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Every day is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day for the first kid to ever pop the plastic bubbles. That would be me. Continue reading It’s Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day!
