Art, Poetry & Essays • But not necessarily in that order.
I’m not generally drawn to realistic painting because if I wanted to look at realistic art, I would look at a photograph. But Jody Mattison’s work at the Epperson Gallery caught me off gaurd. I’m not sure why I’m taken with her paintings, perhaps because the people she paints are ordinary people. They look like people […]
I have written about four hundred poems in just one year. And I’ve drawn over five hundred sketches. How did I do it? One day at a time. One stroke at a time. One word at a time. I made a simple goal for myself: write one poem a day. And by setting that simple […]
My son Elijah asked me a brilliant question this morning. Why do we go trick or treating? Leading up to Halloween he asked several other questions. I’ve distilled my answers for you, so that you can reflect on how you may want to answer your child’s curious questions. Why do we go trick or treating? Halloween is […]
Time magazine published an article on the critical role bees play in our agricultural systems and how pesticides are contributing to their deaths. In June of 2013, Portland experienced a massive die off of 25,000 bees because of pesticides used to keep linden trees free of aphids. The pesticides we have come to rely on are […]
I took this close up photo of a spider using a Photojojo macro lens attached to my iPhone. I had to take 166 photos in order to get one or two that I like. I deleted 125 photos and will probably delete more. But that’s the beauty of using a digital camera like the one […]