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I got back to Chicago last night after a week away. For most of that time I sat in this chair and wrote and wrote and wrote. I’ve never written so much in such a short time. Behind the chair, through a bunch of windows, you could see the lake which was only a fewContinue reading “Back from the Sticks”

As far as artwork goes, most of the last couple weeks have been taken up with memorial portraits of recently departed pets. That’s Aggie above and Otis below. Yesterday I arrived at Tofte Lake, which is near the Canadian border in Minnesota. I came here a couple years ago to work on visuals for aContinue reading “Not into Nature”

I’ve been calling the number for about seven years now. Every time the automated voice tells me the mailbox is full, then hangs up. Until last weekend. I hadn’t called in at least half a year but then I saw an article in Chicago magazine about how the writer passed up an earlier chance butContinue reading “The second best meal I’ve ever had”