Bullies, Critics And Daydreams

  The summer after I completed the first grade I spent several weeks at my grandfather Link’s home. Our family went “over home” for Sunday dinners on a regular basis Relatives who joined us around the green table in the kitchen were a happy group and the...

Nostalgia Moments

  Seeing a nostalgic event can be missed in the blink of an eye. I happened to look out my front window years ago just as my eight year old son Duion, came running down our front yard hill with a pillowcase of candy he had collected. He rushed into his room,...

Car Coat Winter

During the Louisville, Kentucky Christmas season, Stewarts Department Store was open until 9:00 p.m. on Monday evenings so while attending Presentation Academy, I worked there and would take the late bus home from town out to our home in the Camp Taylor neighborhood....

The Photograph

  I stood there looking at the photograph my student held in his hand. He explained that he was one of the soldiers who helped liberate one of the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. It was his horrible reminder of the cruelty suffered by so many men,...

Studio And Work Areas

    When I ran into an artist friend in a hardware store years ago, he told me he was shopping for an extra lock to put on his studio door because he was tired of relatives looking inside and describing his area as “disgusting”, “deplorable” or “downright...