Nature's Mandala
Creativity?
Creativity? Not much creativity going on around here lately. Life keeps getting in the way. Along with a dose of burnout these past months. Yesterday I find myself sitting…
Mahjong | Still Life Series
Mahjong is a very popular tile-based game developed in China during the Qing dynasty during the mid to late 1800s. It quickly became popular throughout Asia and was brought to…
“Test Pattern,” Circa 1950….short fiction
Circa 1950. The old man and Cat have looked after one another for years in their dingy, run-down flat, for as long as Cat could remember.They shared a simple but…
The Explorers Club Flights of Fancy
Imagine spending your days with other scholars in a beautiful but dimly lit library built in the most beautiful Baroque style, surrounded by hundreds of ancient codices and scores of handcrafted…
The Warrior Motel
How do you know? Along life’s journey, how do you know? Do you take the right fork on the road ahead or the left? And what lies just beyond that…
“High Life” ~ not so much
Shrimpers and most watermen, for that matter, are a tenacious, hardy bunch. For many, it has been a family way of life for generations. Salt water runs in their veins and thoughts leaving…
Solitude ~ My Secret Garden
"My Secret Garden" is an imagined place. A place of solitude, a place for aloneness. A place to just be. To me, there are two sides to being alone. Loneliness is…
My Secret Garden
"My Secret Garden" is an imagined place. A place of solitude, a place for aloneness. A place to just be. To me, there are two sides to being alone. Loneliness is…
Beautiful Duernstein, Austria Along the Danube River
Along the Danube River in Austria's scenic Wachau Valley lies the quaint Medieval village of Duernstein. Since the late 12th century, the Duernstein castle has kept watch over the town and this stretch of the river.