Bijou writes: Molly and Martha will be your guides today on a journey of familiarity and comfort. The tangles they have chosen for this tile are easy, yet delightful. Simple string, no fear.  The composition leaves us with many alternate directions to take, if one so chooses. A lot of room for miss-steps, changes of mind, an opportunity to take the road less traveled.  Enjoy the soft banter of the sisters' comments and suggestions, a giggle here and there. It is not lost on me, a lowly snail, that the sisters are very apt to take chances and have fun with their tangling. They have inspired me to...

Maria writes:  I am pretty sure you envision us all here at Zentangle Central, like little elves, getting all these videos done in plenty of time and basking in the luxury of completing a major project. When in reality, we are running around, willy nilly, filming, creating audio, and writing stories and doing photo shoots up to the very last minute. I'd like to think we plan it that way so it is not too predictable, but we intend to get them done ahead of time. It's just that there are so many important Zentangly things that need our immediate attention, or so it seems at the...

Alfie writes... Today's tile is by Rick, no surprise here! He has his favorite tangles, his "mac'n'cheese tangles," (although I cannot remember the last time I actually witnessed him eat mac'n'cheese), but I digress. . .  As I reflect on the number of times he uses these two tangles, I realize why we call them "Rick's paradox" and "Rick's flux". I must admire his focus as he tangles. Nothing seems to break his concentration. I have found him to be a true Renaissance man, one who has profound proficiency in a number of fields: a lifelong student, never seeming to reach the end, where he gets the...