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...]
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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...]
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...]
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...]
Farewell to a Plague Year
2020 shudders to a close. It hardly seems right to let it go without an end-of-year post, but this has been the kind of bastard year in which new challenges [read more...]
Weigh in motion
Time for the July newsletter has rolled around while I’m still thinking about last month. The June Stikmantica boasted more link clicks and more [read more...]
Nod’s Way – a miscellany from under the hood
Nod’s Way, the Author’s Edition is scheduled for release in a few weeks, and Stikmantica will have copies for sale if I can raise the funds. Please [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...]
Oracular plans and matters of muchness
Once in a while, maybe a little more often lately, I find myself staring at whatever I had been doing moments before. Words or image, whichever, sit waiting, [read more...]
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