This is the first blog post that I'm co-writing with my wife. After all, she's putting it all together. I'm just supplying the artwork. Quick background. Allie and I have been working on the game recently and Roxy and I have been cramming to get ready for a second show…
One of the regular things I do for fun - I'm in a Euro board game group. We meet once a week and play games. Unfortunately for me, the guy who runs the group likes to play a new game every week. I don't. I like playing the same 10-20…
The Ancient Greeks of course started the ball rolling. They're pretty much responsible for Western culture. Then you know what came next. The Romans conquered them and borrowed their culture. Rome fell. We had the Middle Ages. Whereas a lot of history happened in the Middle Ages, art took several…
You hear me talk about Beethoven often. But it is Tchaikovsky who is my favorite. Aesthetically, nobody can touch him. The very first time I heard his 6th, I was 17 years old. And I thought to myself “this is the greatest piece of music ever written”. My opinion hasn’t…
I've never served in the Armed Forces and would never compare my measly life to theirs. That said, I've known several good folks who have served and seen how they use painting as therapy. For instance, I met a UDT once who would paint islands from a plane's view. At…