Visual records
Originally this column was going to talk about long Covid. My social media posts get steady feedback that assumes life is good and I am well when, in fact, I [read more...]
Robert Stikmanz
Family Story: a line of descent
If you enjoy this column, please click on the Ko-fi or Buy Me a Coffee button on the right and buy me a coffee. “Grandmother, who taught me to [read more...]
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...]
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...]
Family Story: Dogged Wishing
1966 CE The incident I want to tell about happened when I was eleven. That was a different world and another context, so before telling about the incident I [read more...]
Molt
A familiar type but unfamiliar, the leaves dance nameless in light and wind through most of a coffee. They dance when word, a name from elsewhere, slips from [read more...]
Dreaming on a shoestring
I had started for Montevideo in the early days of 2020. Started in the sense that I had signed a contract for sale of my home and shucked most of my [read more...]
Mothership connection
The way has opened for interrupted plans. Not only did barriers fall, but there is a deadline by which change must happen. Suddenly, there is no time to waste. [read more...]
Pivot
It’s good to be drawing again. The going is slow because, as with everything else, there are limits now where once it seemed there were none. Eyes, back, [read more...]
Please do not call me #2
As threatened, the second vent of three. Please do not call me a genius. I get called this a lot. There is no basis for it, and yet it happens. It happened [read more...]
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