New Year, new goals, new blog

So I’m down to the last hour or so of 2008, and, as I’ve been doing since October, I’m thinking about what I want to accomplish in 2009.
I don’t make the kind of resolutions most people make (lose weight, go to the gym, get organized). After all, I’m not broken, wayward, or degenerate. I don’t [...]

Okay, I’m back.

Way back in April, my energies got diverted into other things, and while I occasionally thought about it, I never quite made it back to this blog–not even to finish and publish the backlog of posts still in draft form.  I had to set aside most of my creative work, and writing about creativity while [...]

Spring has sprung! I think I need a nap…

We’ve all had Bad Hair Days now and again, haven’t we? Well, today I’m having a Bad Computer Day. My scanner, according to my computer, no longer exists. And that’s just for starters. So okay, okay, I’m taking the hint; I’m going to get the hell offline and go do something outside on this pleasant spring day. (Just [...]

What I’m painting now.

I’ve been back from Dallas for almost a week, and I still don’t have a complete account written. For the moment, suffice it to say that I saw a lot of incredible art, had a great time, and wished I’d decided to stay at least one more full day because there is so much to see in [...]

On baggage, and dreams about cockroaches.

My flight for Dallas leaves at 6:00 AM, so I’m just going to stay up and get work done before heading off to the airport. I took a nap earler, and I can also sleep on the plane.
Since I’m only staying one night, I hardly need to take anything with me at all. A toothbrush. [...]

Developing a play ethic.

I can hardly believe it’s been ten days since I last updated–time’s gone so quickly.
In that time, I’ve been playing with collage. I have a stack of postcards upon which I’ve made simple mosaic-like patterns from cut-up magazine photos. (And I’ll say this: Real Simple is the most boring lifestyle magazine in existence, but it’s full [...]

Bubbling over.

I need to drink more Champagne. It must be done for the sake of art.
For the last couple of days, I’ve been carving rubber stamps. I’ve already finished about a dozen of them, in various sizes. Some I’ve mounted on small blocks of wood, but I’ve also made a bunch of smaller round ones sized specifically to be mounted [...]

Oh, the places I’ll go…

I believe in simple, easily-kept New Year’s resolutions. Why make a conscious decision to to do something horrible and depressingly necessary at the beginning of each year when you could do something fun and pleasurable instead? It’s not as if you don’t have 364 other days to beat yourself up for being fat, broke, and/or out-of-shape. New Year’s resolutions should be about [...]