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Stuart Sheldon
Dec 25, 20132 min read
Do You Know What You Don’t Know?
“Life’s hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid.” John Wayne. As we crest a new year, it would do us all good to acknowledge we have...
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Stuart Sheldon
Dec 18, 20133 min read
I Have Created Life But Never Taken It – PART 2
“Hey, douchebag. There was a lot happening between Vietnam and Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom. Plenty of chances to...
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Stuart Sheldon
Dec 12, 20133 min read
I Have Created Life But Never Taken It
I never went to war. Never killed a man. Never got shot at. Never watched a friend die mid-sentence. Why am I even going here? Because...
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Stuart Sheldon
Dec 4, 20133 min read
Tap That!
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing. African Proverb The Class-5 hurricane called Art Basel just made land in...
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Stuart Sheldon
Nov 20, 20133 min read
Lessons From a Prince
The “step” in step-parent comes from the ancient latin word ástíeped meaning bereaved, as in one who marries a widow. My step-father, Al...
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Stuart Sheldon
Nov 13, 20133 min read
It May Be Illegal But Is It Wrong?
If you found 20-pounds of pot floating in the sea, what would you do? My stocky dad and his lanky boat partner, Dan, didn’t think a boat...
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Stuart Sheldon
Nov 7, 20133 min read
The Mother of All Awkward or How To Bite a Ten-Month-Old
Demure Becomes You, acrylic, antique cookbook, cardboard on canvas, 60″x60″, 2007, Stuart Sheldon We all have ex lovers. Encountering...
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Stuart Sheldon
Oct 29, 20132 min read
Bacon Is the New Black
My alter ego is bacon. I don’t even know what that means. I only know that it’s true. Bacon is like sex or surfing or a foot massage....
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Stuart Sheldon
Oct 24, 20132 min read
How To Make 11 People Love You Instantly
There are ways. Camping alone on Kauai with nothing but a surfboard and a backpack, I boiled water for ramen and huddled in a small...
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Stuart Sheldon
Oct 17, 20133 min read
Did You Learn All You Really Need to Know in Kindergarten?
My son’s now in kindergarten, so I’m keeping score. I DO believe we learn most of what we need at this age: sharing, being kind to one...
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Stuart Sheldon
Oct 9, 20133 min read
Shoot Your Parents
image from www.starpulse.com Imagine if you had video of your great-great-grandparents, dressed in their period garb and speaking to you...
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Stuart Sheldon
Sep 19, 20133 min read
How To Disappear
We all need to escape our lives and disconnect every now and then. Change the scenery and the pace. The color blue alone made it all...
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Stuart Sheldon
Sep 5, 20134 min read
How To Reinvent Yourself
Small Steps in a Big World, acrylic and antique cookbooks on canvas, twelve 5″x5″ squares, 2007, from the collection of Peay Vineyards,...
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Stuart Sheldon
Aug 29, 20133 min read
Meet Me in Heaven at Half Past Seven
“What’s fate, Daddy?” my 5-year-old asked last week. Whoah. I was still reeling from last month’s one-two punch: “Is God real?” followed...
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Stuart Sheldon
Aug 22, 20134 min read
Learn Earn Return
Look Into Me, acrylic and oil crayon on canvas with original poetry, 48″x36″, 2001, Stuart Sheldon Life in three words. LEARN EARN RETURN...
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Stuart Sheldon
Aug 15, 20133 min read
How to Greet the World
photo by Lynn Kelley @WANA Commons Years ago, under the auspices of meeting women, someone gave me this sage advice which I believe...
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Stuart Sheldon
Aug 8, 20133 min read
Is Fear a Choice?
Many scientists believe we have but one innate fear at birth – FEAR OF FALLING. Everything else is learned. Is there truth to the notion...
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Stuart Sheldon
Aug 1, 20133 min read
The Experience Collector
George Plimpton – 50 Years of Partying Like a Rockstar, acrylic & mixed media on cardboard, 16.5″ x 23″, 2003, Stuart Sheldon “WHAT DO...
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Stuart Sheldon
Jul 25, 20133 min read
From the Mouths of Babes – Ruthless Negotiation & Radical Honesty
Les Amours Enfantines, acrylic and antique book on paper, 7″x6″, 2004, Stuart Sheldon The 8-year-old daughter of a friend once paid me an...
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Stuart Sheldon
Jul 16, 20133 min read
A Good Father Scares the Mother (and vice-versa)
“I arranged for Kai and me to fly over the Golden Gate Bridge in a seaplane. Can you believe how cool that’s gonna be!!” I told my wife...
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