Andy   16" x 10"  Acrylic on Canvas Board

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make it look exactly like him until I got the complete deadness in his eyes. 

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 Christopher Hitchens 1949 - 2011

One of my heroes.  My favorite Christopher Hitchens book is  Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring).  I have a copy of it on my iPhone and computer and a couple soft cover copies - one in my backpack and one in… Read full post »

 American Badass - 36" x 24" - Acrylic on stretched Canvas

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I don’t remember becoming an artist.  Every day that I can remember, I was an artist.

Until I got ready to go off to college, being an artist was almost always a positive thing. I was… Read full post »

Because she just passed away at the age of 79.  Consider this a bonus sketch for this week.

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Going into this past weekend’s game in Pittsburgh, the New York Jets had won nine games.  They had one of the best won-loss records in the league.  They still had a good defense and running game.  So why were the Jets faithful so thoroughly resigned… Read full post »

John Grisham

Denzel Washington

Nicholas Cage

Elizabeth Shue

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My grandmother lived in a small town in Pennsylvania.  Her name was Veronica but everyone called her Babci.  Even her sisters, who all lived in the same town, called her Babci in her later years.  The word “Babcia” means grandmother in Polish but somewhere along the way, it/… Read full post »

President John F. Kennedy has advised U.S. families to build bomb shelters.

It is 1961.  I am 7 years old.  I am lying on the floor of my bedroom with my ear pressed to the baseboard vent.  I listen to my parents argue.  My mother is really mad at me.… Read full post »

It’s 1981.  I am 27 years old and married barely a year.  I am living in a second floor, two-bedroom apartment in Port Washington, Long Island, above a grouchy invalid and his perpetually angry wife.  I go to a Chiropractor 5 days a week to help relieve the back pain… Read full post »

After the worst year of my life, I guess I am some combination of numb and reconciled.  Sure, I thought about joining them, but I think they can wait for me.  I accept what happened and why it happened.  I don’t care if everyone in town still talks about it.  The… Read full post »