I said yesterday I would write in more detail about my complicated relationship with the journal-effort that I’m calling A Perfect Life. It’s complicated. First of all, a reminder of the physical object I’m talking about: It’s a beautiful thing, a leather-bound journal with probably 120 pages or so of nice paper. I bought it […]
Today in our continuing book study of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published [EGGYBP], we look at the pitch. There are two kind of pitches: 1) the elevator pitch, which is over by the time the elevator gets to the next floor, and 2) your long-form pitch. [p.70] I keep trying to come […]
I had never been a part of Newnan Crossing’s Relay for Life team before. I’d supported it, donated to it, but back when I was still at NCTC, there would be a show to take care of, and then I just never motivated myself to get on board. However, since my friend Mitch Powell’s death […]
So last night, I was reading a little Herodotus in bed—as one does—… No, really, Herodotus is a hoot. We’re still reading him 2,500 years later because he’s such a gossip. He reminds me of T. R. Pearson and of Lawrence Sterne in that he is absolutely unable to resist a detour into whatever name/event/detail comes […]
Let’s look at all the creative projects implied by the mess in my study. I think I’ll just list them. Commentary would be superfluous. A Perfect Life, a rambling memoir of sorts of what life was like for an educated upper middle class white male in the turn of the 21st century painting: the Field […]
I began unpacking my old office stuff, and doing so raises an issue: what to do with all that stuff. I had four large plastic tubs filled with stuff from my office: books, folders, decorative items, a veritable medicine cabinet, a small flock of tools, rulers, pens, inks, markers, sticky notes, labels, teas, a coffee […]
Let’s talk about my Proposed Efforts for 2011. Some of them are rollovers from 2010. A couple are new. First, the list: finish the cello sonata write a good short story play with the 24-Hour Challenge again continue painting create my new age album, Stars on Snow create the westpoint sculpture Since I have today […]
Last Saturday night, the Lichtenbergian Society held its Annual Meeting around the fire. As longtime readers of this blog know, part of our ritual involves setting creative goals for the coming year, and before that confessing how well we did on the goals of the year just past. So, before I get to my Lichtenbergian […]
If I had had the last six days free, this would be the final day of my summer. However, even though technically I have no firm obligations today, I am determined to be a Good Person and go into the media center to start setting it back to rights, so time was up last Wednesday. […]
My summer of Myself is on the horizon, 1 month 2 days and 17 hours to be precise, and I find that it cannot come quickly enough. (Note: my “summer” doesn’t begin until I return from helping set up GHP on Tuesday, June 15!) What are my goals? sketch five proposals for the Ayrshire Fiddle […]