Today is the one-year anniversary of my last cigarette. A full year later I am still a non-smoker. This was something I never thought I would become. I smoked through half the 80’s, all of the 90’s and almost all of the 00’s, all those years I thought that my addiction was far stronger than my willpower to destroy it, and that I was forever doomed ( Read more... )

I haven’t updated my online gallery very much lately, however, that’s not to say I haven’t been putting new works to paper. Some of my more recent illustrations, all of which are a combination of carbon pencils and watercolor pencils on Bristol plate…


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So today started out rather dreadfully, my first client started out wanting one haircut, then once I was completed she decided she wanted another one altogether, then one more. After three haircuts in a row I was awarded the “attaboy” that only a one-dollar tip could provide. Yepper, a single dollar. I didn’t get a lunch break today because of this ( Read more... )

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The other day I set a few cookies onto my bedside table, I was going to have a can of beer, a few cookies, and read my book before bed. I set my cookies down and immediately had to grab my camera because when I drew back my cookie-eating hand this was looking back at me…


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I’ve been spoiled in the jobs I’ve had for the last ten years. If nothing else, my decade-string of low-ceiling jobs has kept me isolated from the general public. It also kept me in small offices staffed by low numbers of young single nerdy males with no family. I haven’t been prone to catch so much as a head cold for as far back as I can remember ( Read more... )

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When I was in 5th Grade, the Winter Olympics came to my neighborhood. It was a proud time for us, and all of us kids had Olympic Fever that winter. It was my first introduction to the Olympics, it left an impact and ever since then I’ve been a total fanatic for the Winter Games.

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