There were many years when I could not escape the tensions that winter holidays invite, but no more. By steady degrees, I’ve enjoyed an increasing distance from holiday stresses and wouldn’t want to have them back.   I don’t think there is a single beautiful thing on the planet that does not have it’s counter...

“Dennis, you sound phoney!” I freshly recall dad’s complaint made decades ago. For months, I’d been harvesting speech nuance from radio personalities whose confident delivery I admired. It must have been noticeable.   The bothersome complaint was not enough to quash the effort, but it did remind me of art school where instructors at the...

One would expect that given the size of any main stream language there would be a word for every need, or at least a series of words that can be strung together to make the point. There isn’t a word for all situations though. That’s why it’s necessary  and acceptable to transform known terms into...

Strange how the swirling effects of life’s other influences can sometimes fan the flame and other times fuel only the orange embers, one effect being visible to all while the other only to those who bask in the warmth of that fire. I am curious how disruption affects the work of other creatives and how...