I have a friend in prison. At some point years ago, before I met him, he made some choices that are hard to imagine now, but that may have seemed like a good idea at the time. [More….]
Monthly Archives: November 2014
If you’ve ever hefted and carried an unabridged English dictionary around for a while, you know that we’ve got plenty of words to call upon when we speak or write. Out of idle curiosity, I thought I’d try to get a sense for just how many. [More….]
How’s your inventory of unsolved mysteries? I’m not talking of suspense novels you started reading but that failed to hold your attention, or of difficult concepts you never managed to wrestle into submission. I’m thinking more of things that happened [More….]
During a training meeting I was helping with last year I had a conversation with a woman who had been raised in Oklahoma. At the time, Oklahoma was in the news because of the tornado that had flattened a path through the town of Moore. The details of the storm [More….]
November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo to its affectionate friends. If this idea intrigues you, here’s a recent interview with Chris Baty, the man behind the movement. The project began with a few [More….]
To begin the Art to Share series, I’ve chosen some of the photography of Jeff Whatcott. I asked him recently [More….]
Though el Guapo is the only artist I’m married to, he’s not the only artist I count as a friend, or whose work I enjoy. I’m planning a series that will feature works by various artists–some personal friends, some admired from afar, some just starting out, some well established. From time to time I’ll highlight paintings, photographs, illustrations, etc. that have something to say to me, because art can give us something we didn’t know we were missing.[More….]
