The Artist, Lockdowns, and 2021
We’ve come to the end of another year, but not the end of another time. Each of us has had […]
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The Time Is Short: Don’t Procrastinate
I have never celebrated Ash Wednesday before until yesterday evening, and even then I am not entirely sure what happened, […]
“Looking Along” and “Looking At”
Several weeks ago, I was able to hear a lecture on Lucy from the C.S. Lewis scholar Andrew Lazo. If […]
An Artist’s Humility
Can you imagine life without making something? Writing stories, painting, composing? If I ceased to write at all, even in […]
An Artist Asks: Who am I?
A poem on who an artist is, or at least this one (me.)
It’s Okay to Be an Artist
Whether you believe that people have talents or gifts, or that all their skills have been acquired solely through practice […]
What Am I Doing with My Life…
The eternal question. At least it feels eternal, as I come to the first full year after graduation. Moan moan […]
Unfinished Business & Pushing Through
Flannery O’Connor and Karen Swallow Prior hit the nail on the head.
Ginger Doyel, and Plenty of Steps
Photo taken from The Capital Gazette (Algerina Perna / Baltimore Sun Media Group). On January 8th, The Capital Gazette published […]
The Next Right Step
It’s a brand new year: 2019! The possibilities have never been more possible. The time to cast off laziness and […]