Welcome back to the week-long celebration of The Star Shard — the novel just released and in stores now, and the story that inspired it, which ran as a series in Cricket Magazine from April 2008 – April 2009. This week … Continue reading
My single favorite Christmas album is an old cassette tape given to me years ago by the friend who goes by “Marquee Movies” on this blog. Back during the years when I was attending Shirone Lutheran Church in Japan, I … Continue reading
Well, here we go. As Christmas presents for some friends here this year, I decided to get out the brushes and canvases again and attempt to create one-of-a-kind, personalized gifts. (Notice that I didn’t say “great artwork” anywhere in there!) … Continue reading
One of my two favorite professors in my college days was a wiry little old Texan named Professor Charles Froehlich. With him I studied three years of Koine Greek (the language of the New Testament), a year of Latin, a … Continue reading
Here’s something that may interest all you visual artists. I’d heard that there was a different aesthetic sense of color in America and Japan. I mean, I’d noticed some intriguing things over the years: for one, when kids in the … Continue reading
I ran across this quote from William Blake: “Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.” For a stretch of about twelve or fifteen years, I read a couple of the popular writing trade … Continue reading
When you live without a car as I do here in Japan, you pay a lot of attention to the weather. What the weather is doing makes about a forty-minute difference in what time I leave my apartment to get … Continue reading