I was several days into working on my current painting, a duplicate of a Claude Monet seascape, an exercise which was intended to provide hands-on experience with that artist’s…
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The Surprise(s)
I got home from school, went straight into my dad’s office, and fired up his computer. Within moments, the system was up. A few swift keyboard commands fired up…
My Soulmate
Nearly every summer in college, I worked on a crew of conference assistants. Our job was to prepare the dorms for the presence of different summer camps, ranging from prepubescent…
"Sorry, Gotta Go!"
Although this story is ancient, it’s received a fair number of encores over the past few months. And it’s appropriate to tell again, since some of these same…
The Beginning of the Hardest and Best Year of my Life
Back in the day, I had grand dreams of becoming a comic-book artist. It started way back in the 6th grade, when my mother took me to Zak’s (long-time…
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