I was among the 28,000—yes, you read that right—who signed up to take part in Project Sketchbook …continue reading »

I signed up for Art House’s Sketchbook Project a few weeks ago, and was disappointed, like many others, with the thinness of the paper …continue reading »

As much as I hate shilling for a large corporation, I just had to share with you the high-tops I designed online at Converse’s website. …continue reading »

I recently read an excerpt from The Pain Chronicles, a book by Melanie Thernstrom, a reporter who experienced chronic neck and arm pain, the treatment of which proved elusive. …continue reading »

When I was a child, my Mom and my aunt Josephine used to take me to our parish church to play Bingo. …continue reading »

My father worked as a laborer at the Bethlehem Steel Plant in Lackawanna, NY, for 30 years, It was a dirty, hard job. …continue reading »

By the time I usually travel to Penland, in late August, it is well past the time to see bales of hay in the meadow facing the dining hall. But this past summer, I went in late June and was taken with the vista of hay bales nestled in verdant green. …continue reading »

Before he died, maybe 6 months ago, my Dad suggested that maybe it was time for me to give up playing basketball. After all, he noted, I’m in my 50s and I have chronic back pain. I play with a brace on my left knee …continue reading »