Trash and Treasure

        Standing in a neighborhood hardware store, I happened to overhear a customer talking to the shop owner. The customer was a pleasant, round-faced woman in her eighties who was having a problem with clearing water out of her basement after recent...

Oliver

       Whenever I drive out Dixie Highway and pass the Southwest Government Center, I have to smile because once upon a time our Southwest Artists group was involved with a Parade to celebrate the opening of the Center.      The police in the Center frowned when...

Walt Disney-Art Hero

       In the “Year of a Million Dreams”, it was most fitting to pay homage to a gentleman artist whose work brightened the childhood years of many generations. Scattering his magic throughout the lives of old and young alike with the antics of Mickey...

Fear of White Space

       During the Second World War, Winston Churchill sat at his easel staring at a blank sheet, unable to begin a new work. A ladyfriend, seeing his dilemma, walked over, snatched away his brush, made several hasty broad swipes on the sheet hen demanded,...

Grandchildren Are Good Teachers

     When the Florida family lived in Clearwater, the boys decided to take me out into the woods to explore their favorite hiding places, while I was visiting their home one summer.      They prepared by scraping long sticks on the front sidewalk to sharpen them so we...