“By the work one knows the workman.”-Jean de la Fontaine I recently had a Museum of Contemporary Art from a major U.S. city invite me to do some work with them. It is a great honor and definitely something I always wanted to accomplish during my career. So to achieve it right before 40 is, [...]
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.“-Voltaire I think a lot of dads in families feel really marginalized. Like once the kids are in there and life piles on you suddenly fall so far down the list of importance to that you’re just shouting from [...]
“A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.” -Aristotle ‘If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ‘-Frederick Douglas Sterling Gray was a long time friend of my pops. He was a large [...]
“No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.” -Bill Cosby “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”-Kahlil Gibran Warning: Bad parenting ahead. Here’s some backstory, just so you know how [...]
“Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.“ -Edgar Degas “Creativity takes courage.” -Henri Matisse So here’s that painting I was talking about. The one where I went above and beyond the call of duty. You can see a larger version of it here. I’ve been painting Ella for a [...]