“A distressingly large portion of the world doesn’t do you any good whatsoever. In fact, it does you bad. Casts static between your ears,...

More precisely, as reminded by our local friends, we left the United States. We still live in America, Central America. Playa Grande,...

In the Emmy-winning series, Friday Night Lights, actress Connie Britton slays as a smart woman in a dumb town. In Dillon, TX, where high...

“How does a lie come to be widely taken as the truth? The answer is disturbingly simple: Repeat it over and over again. When faced with...

Best Books Ever Written – Vortices of Genius, acrylic, book covers, paper, oil crayon on canvas, 60″x136″, 2015 Why did the Miami Herald...

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...

A fellow painter invited me last week to be one of four artists at a South Beach corporate event. Live painting feels a bit like being a...

Met an ex-Marine named Chad the other day. Guy was yoked, had "muscles on his muscles" as my dad liked to say. We got to talking about...

Gore Vidal died this week. Google him and 35,400 results appear. Because he was the greatest essayist of his age. Yet, he failed at...

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.                                                               ...