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When I visited Italy last fall, I joined many others before me in reflecting on art, literature, time, and empires. What persists? What falls?
Piecing together journal entries, readings, art, postcards and personal experiences, “When We Were Romans”…
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A couple of years ago, as a member of Austin Kleon's ephemeral Read Like an Artist book club, I read Tamara Shopsin's book Arbitrary Stupid Goal.
Arbitrary Stupid Goal included some stories of Shopsin's experience growing up inside…
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I love to travel to other places. I don't think that makes me unusual. It's pretty normal. We all enjoy the experience of traveling to a new place and exploring their special places.
When my kids were young, we regularly…
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I could stare at this painting for hours and not get bored. Edward Hopper's Sun on Prospect Street is much like other Hopper paintings. He has stripped out a lot of visual complexity - there are no curtains in the…
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I've been on Threads since its inception, more or less. And because I joined after already having years of internet and social media experience, I decided to curate my own experience. So I have intentionally built a Threads group almost…
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I've been writing songs on notebooks since I was a freshman, stuck in a study hall in the cafeteria in Ashland, Ohio. Those early songs were mostly new stanzas to existing poems, or my own lyrics to existing songs. I…
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I’ve been writing and recording songs for years. But it is only recently that I’ve started performing my own music live. It started by playing at welcoming open mic events at local bars and restaurants. I also accepted an invitation…
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Several years ago a friend of mine expressed amazement at my ability to write a song. “How do you do that?” she asked. She didn’t…
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My songs started out as rhymes in the margins of middle school notebooks. Usually they were just additional stanzas in the same style of whatever poet we were reading in English class - or anywhere I encountered poetry.
The methodology…
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