2022

Years ago, there was a Norman Rockwell Exhibit that was traveling across the United States. It was comprised mostly of all the covers he had created for Saturday Evening Post Magazine. A total of 321 magazine covers. It made a stop at the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio. I bought tickets so I could […]

The something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected. An anomaly. Those peculiarities in life. Fluctuations from the standard conventions. A few days ago, on New Year’s Eve, a whole bunch of people were on top of a high mountainside peak near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Someone, much earlier, had decided to build a

Most likely, since the very beginning of things, the human brain has been interested in making things easier on the human body. Back in those early days, the caveman would pick up a heavy rock and carry the heavy rock. But then, he thought, what if I place the heavy rock on an animal skin,

When I was a kid, I’d plop right down on the ground, no matter where I was, if my shoe came untied. I’d give the laces a good yank to tighten things up, and then I’d finish shoring up the shoe with a nice little bow. But every so often, during the yanking phase of

“Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.”― Tarjei Vesaas