Happy Birthday

My wife is a very private person. She has one friend on facebook, for example, and that person is me. Yesterday was her birthday.When I posted this same message yesterday, I attached a photo. She was correctly upset. I removed the Facebook posting of this blog post at...

The Departed

In my latest painting, I am exploring the relationship between two souls who do not have the same relationship that existed when they met. While living together each departs for their own world every...

Kinaesthetic learning

Since I was very little, I have always enjoyed showing my ideas through my fingers rather than through my mouth.  While I like discussion and debate, it is not something that I wake up in the morning wanting to do. Drawing seems primeval. It is visceral for me.  The...

Daughters..what does it mean?

In 1978 my daughter Hannah was born. Three years later my twin girls Lauren and Nora were born. Their mother is Elise Howell. She is a brilliant musician, teacher and academician. As a man who spent his early post teenage years protesting the Vietnam War,...

A new direction 

Facebook helped me in many ways understand the tension, distrust and simmering anger on all sides of the political spectrum over the past year and a half. It has served its purpose. I know now that it is not a vehicle for change—only confirmation. While at times I...

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