Last Friday, I was walking home from the Four Seasons Hotel on Logan Square, where I'd met up with one of my collectors and a few of her friends who were there to see my paintings that are on exhibit in the Fountain Restaurant. It was early evening and the city was going through the last bits of the changeover from the work week into the party ( Read more... )

An answer to a question about inspiration and nature put forth to illustrator Jeffrey Fisher in issue number 4 of Elephant Magazine  had me laughing out loud when I read it because Fisher put into words how I have been feeling about the scope of our destruction of the environment, particularly the bit in bold below. Here's the question and then ( Read more... )

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I had finished brushing my teeth and was having one of those moments of zoning out. I was looking out of the window which overlooks the lusciously green backyards of our neighbors. It was kind of cloudy but warm outside, just warm enough to feel like spring. As I stood there, my mind drifted a bit and an interesting thing happened-I realized that ( Read more... )

This week, I returned to my regular work schedule after four months. One of my co-workers had a school schedule that required him to work on different days than usual and I agreed to help him out by switching shifts. What that did was to break up my days off and I never really got used to it. I guess it would have taken a few months longer to do so ( Read more... )

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I was having quite the ordinary, off from work, do nothing much kind of day. Late this afternoon, I thought it would be a good idea to head over to the local supermarket and pick up a few things for dinner. I made the rounds and found most of what I needed when I decided to return something to the shelf.

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One of my co-workers had me in tears with laughter earlier this evening. We had a brief conversation about how some people can't contain their disappointment when things don't go their way when they shop or just with life, in general. At one point, she says, "I don't know what people want, y'know? LIfe is tough...get a helmet!"

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