Category Archives: creativity
Artist faces mountain of student debt
What am I grateful for?
The Alaska Range
“The Alaska Range,” oil on canvas board, by Carol L. Douglas Neither rain nor snow nor threat of sleep deprivation shall keep us from our appointed rowdiness. Mary and I coined that as our trip’s slogan. It’s insane. Mary has a cold and I’m feeling an irksome scratchiness to the throat. We can afford […]
The Sketchbook Wars
Teach your children
Fiction, part three
Fiction, part one
Stylin’
I love the smell of recently-massacred skunk. It’s as much an early sign of spring as yellow in the willow twigs and the honking of geese. I experienced all three yesterday. Winter’s back is broken. I expected to leave Rochester after lunch yesterday. After a morning of fitful work, I packed the car and waited […]
Good or bad art
When I was 30, a minister told me, “Young people always think in black and white. When you’re older, you will have much more nuanced views.” I’ve never changed my opinion on the matter we were discussing (sin) but I have changed my mind radically about art. Young artists tend to have very strong opinions […]