Have you ever felt compelled, for the flimsiest of reasons, to do something & then, having done it, realized your life was immeasurably enriched by it? That was precisely what happened last Sunday when Tom & I drove up to the Milwaukee Art Museum to see...
Here’s something I’ve been puzzling over for the last 20-odd years: Why is it so very difficult for me to give myself permission to go into the studio to work on a project if it happens that the house hasn’t been cleaned in over a week or some other,...
I’ve always had a penchant for shadowy things. For example, I’m attracted to (some might say, addicted to) film noir & mystery books. I adore listening to old radio programs like Suspense & The Whistler. And, at this time of year in particular, I find...
As soon as I entered the classroom on my very first day of graduate school, the professor pointed out two columns on the blackboard, one labeled Student, the other Teacher. He then asked me to write a word under each heading that represented my...
Tom & I just spent the better part of a Sunday at the Field Museum of Natural History, one of Chicago’s many world-class destinations. Although the Field is probably best known for being home to the T. rex Sue, we were not there to see her, although admittedly,...
