overthink Don’t overthink it! Sounds simple right? But at times it’s probably the hardest thing to do. At times life can be so overwhelming that you drown in trying to… Read More
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Entries for the Arts Coast Magazine
Drawing
Drawing Creating patterns on used coffee filters with stains as a starting point. I have been drawing patterns on used coffee filters, keeping the stains that already adorn them in… Read More
Leonard Bernstein etc.
Here’s what I’m listening to now:https://spotify:user:1219478968:playlist:2l0iJV9SwCWs1YAvwHNaHj Includes music by Bernstein, who is celebrating is hundredth birthday, Barber, Dvorak and some Russian choral music…. Read More
Leap of Faith
Leap of Faith About a year and half ago I was having coffee with Daniel Kelly, the director of my new play that was set to world-premiere at Urbanite in… Read More
Finding Faces
La Mujer con el Papagayo Serious sustained photography can become a sober examination of one’s mind. Quickly frame what you are innately drawn to – before thinking fogs everything –… Read More
The Two-Sided Mirror
The Invisible Photographer In July, my wife Merla and I went spent a week at a bed and breakfast: a 19th-century two-story home overlooking a harbor in Maine. Wonderful… Read More
Breaking the Rules Revisited
Breaking the Rules Revisited I had a great week at the Chautauqua Institution, taking in speakers and events, jogging the grounds, and conducting a writing workshop with five fantastic women… Read More
Things to do before Art Prize: a checklist
Things to do before Art Prize: a checklist Preparing for a competition like Art Prize 2018 takes many things into account that some people would not even think about. The… Read More
Celebrate the Genius of Neil Simon with Clearwater’s West Coast Players
Celebrate the Genius of Neil Simon with Clearwater’s West Coast Players The theater is coming this semiautobiographical story, George Schneider, a middle-aged widower, is encouraged by his brother, Leo, to… Read More
The Black Bear
The Black Bear For a new project I am proposing to create a life-size black bear using an eclectic assortment of stainless steel objects permanently welded together to form… Read More


