Art

Cultivating Simplicity

We’ve been gardening since we got our first “real” house in 2011, and each season includes at least one grave tactical error...

by Evgeniy Isaev via flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Escapism – An Underrated Superpower

  I was trained to be an artistic snob, and as Jimmy Stewart would say, I was a very apt...

The Hook Brings you Back

I was working on a fantastic, thoughtful, philosophical piece on whether genre fiction is formulaic or just taps into a...

The Problem with Art

In honor of Holy Week, here’s a little presentation I wrote back in my acting days for an arts group...

The Deadly Sins of Mystery Authors

The Golden Age writers toyed with various sets of rules of “fair play.” The oath of the famous “Detection Club,”...