Rewriting novels, a short soapbox and coffee
Once upon a time The woman to whom for a while I was married used to tell me, “You have every symptom of Attention Deficit Disorder, except you finish [read more...]
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Thinking aloud
Introductonomicon What follows is a very long post discussing the ambition, confusion and frustration in my life and art for which I lack the language to [read more...]
February: Update Frittata
Call it a week and a half that I’ve been back in Uruguay after visiting Texas. All the questions unresolved before the trip are still unresolved, but now [read more...]
Uncle Toby and jeans no more
Wednesday was a good day on the project. Currently, I’m marking up the second draft to prep the third. As of Wednesday night, three of seven chapters [read more...]
Looking for a way forward
It’s possible that much of the frustration I feel about a lack of audience stems from the years when I made a living as a graphic artist and designer. [read more...]
I have no idea, one thing & I know exactly
A moment postponed over and over is finally at hand. Not today or tomorrow, but over the next few weeks facts will be weighed to determine if Stikmantica, the [read more...]
Opera: Remembrance in three acts
Given the lapses already revealed, I should hesitate before admitting love of opera. Caution, however, is not a watch word when one is born with sun and four [read more...]
Scattered meditation
There are times when crazy sits close to the surface. Scratches on the page shift in a blink from beautifully formed to ridiculous. All the lessons of the past [read more...]
In the Rearview Mirror: Texas Book Festival
At this writing, the planet has moved two and a half days beyond the 2018 Texas Book Festival. This places it approximately 53 million miles from the points it [read more...]
What now?
The previous two weekends found me among the vendors at public events, with a full suite of ups and downs across the experience. September 8 & 9, I shared [read more...]
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