Thanks for your overwhelming response to the first five favorite mistakes. Here are five more to add. There are many more. I once read the mantra for a company called IDEO. It was simply, “Fail Quickly.” I wish I had read that several decades ago. I have the tendency to fail slowly. With a thousand [...]
I once read the mantra for a company called IDEO. It was simply, “Fail Quickly.” I wish I had read that several decades ago. I have the tendency to fail slowly. With a thousand pardons to Sheryl Crow, here are a few of my favorite mistakes. 1. Searching for a soulmate—That term is so sexy…and [...]
22″ x 30″ Original Watercolor and Graphite on Handmade Paper Not For Sale Ready to Hang Canvas and Standard Prints Available “Thus, with soul to speak, but helpless in my throes, biting my idle brush, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and paint.” —A paraphrase of Sidney [...]
As I prepare to offer an original work of art tomorrow at auction, I thought it would be fun to give you my top ten reasons for purchasing original art. My first-ever auction begins NOW and will run for exactly one week. The reserve price is only $75! Please join in the fun!! Go to: [...]
One can wonder how anyone who has the slightest interest in books, or the barest curiosity about what the greatest of all novels may be like, could consider not reading War and Peace. At the same time it is easy to understand why many do not try it. It is too big, too “great,” too [...]
My mom (who is 73 years young) gleefully informed me yesterday that I now qualify for senior citizen discounts. I don’t even know what to think about that. If I truly still live the way Shaun Groves described me in this blog post a few days ago—and I’d like to think I do—then I’m really [...]
12″x 16″ Original Watercolor and graphite on handmade paper Archival Giclee and Standard Prints available “I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It’s a weird place, it’s surreal. It’s so close, but you feel like you’re in another world or on an island.” —Jemima Kirke
There lives a boy so young, so tender across the void He has my blood. He lives with joy absence, engendered tho’ heart deployed He has my love. There lives a boy his daughter’s father hope ne’er destroyed He has my blood. He lives a hoy life flows like water old self alloyed He has [...]
When news of the Boston Marathon tragedy broke, I saw it first on Twitter. For some inane reason I felt the need to turn on our television and tune to CNN. However, my father-in-law was visting, and knowing he is a FOX News guy, I reluctantly searched the DirecTV guide and tuned to the “fair [...]
16″ x 20″ Original Watercolor and Graphite on handmade paper Purchase Original, Standard Prints & Ready to Hang Gallery Wraps HERE ”Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are.” – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Remoulade (serves 4) Ingredients: 3/4 cup mayonnaise 2 tablespoons cocktail sauce 1 tablespoon prepared horseradish 1 tablespoon chili sauce 2 teaspoons Creole mustard 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 teaspoon Louisiana-style hot sauce, or to taste 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1-1/4 medium scallions, chopped 2 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley 2 [...]
When we encounter these words, we are faced with a task. That task demands something more of us than we are willing to give. Without embracing these words in our life vocabulary and experience, we will never grow into maturity. We all have a fantasy of arriving at a conflict-free plateau or a sunlit glen [...]
Over the past two very difficult years, I am learning that a person with a healthy idea of self can manage not only the routine ups and downs of daily life but also serious crises as they develop. Social, personal, financial and professional crises, while always upsetting to one’s normal pattern of life, are not [...]
12″ x 16″ Original watercolor and graphite on handmade paper $450 Purchase HERE —Ready to Hang Canvas and Standard Prints also available “Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.” —Carl Jung
I read voraciously—much like I eat and drink; a good book sates the hungry mind. A great book satiates a thirsty soul. If read thoughtfully at fateful times, great books can shape one’s destiny. I offer ten tomes for your consideration and in no particular order that have nutured my soul. As any bookworm knows, I could [...]
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