My Art
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Lamppost studies, Lake Shore Drive at 59th Street Harbor / Jackson Park Lagoon Bridge
I am trying to learn how to sketch. Over the weekend, I attended (not ran in 🙂 the Chicago Half Marathon. The course for the race started in Jackson Park, basically at the site of the proposed Obama Presidential Library. I like nature, architecture, and pictures, so S-L and I walked the course up to…
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Collage: 18 Wonder Day
On Monday, I took the day off. It was my 18th anniversary of sobriety. I used the time to work on an image collage, which is a new (to me) form of art that I’ve been working on since I got an iPad Pro.
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Current Book Projects, March 2018
I have been down-low working on a number of book projects, and I want to list them here, if for no other reason than it will force me to work on them harder. Recovery / Hospice: A Memoir This is a chronological account of my mother’s death, covering the 8 weeks from when she fell…
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Modifying “Hop on Pop” So As To Make the Dad Less of a Cranky Killjoy
I love Dr. Seuss. One time I dragged a number of pieces of furniture out of an alley and custom-finished them with cutout illustrations from Seuss books.
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I Take Pictures: 2015 Output Review
Flickr is an essential place for my documentary life. Here’s a look at what I’ve posted there in the last year. Trips I track my trips in pictures. I went on 19 trips this year, which added to my overall total of 130 trips documented in this collection. My trips are broadly broken down into…