January 11, 2026 “Wow. That is the best painting I’ve ever seen.”  As parents, when we speak these words to our 4-year old who’s holding up a piece of paper with a bunch of scribbles and lines on it, some might argue that we’re lying to them.  In this case, we’re just propping up their…

December 28, 2025 On the album Funeral by Arcade Fire, the opening track entitled “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” has a beautifully interesting line toward the end of the song:        “Sometimes we remember our bedrooms, and our parents bedrooms and the bedrooms of  our friends…”    I’m not exactly sure what the artist’s intentions were when they penned…

December 14, 2025 Have you ever thought about what you would have done differently if you’d been given a second chance at something?  This is a rather broad question, with sci-fi connotations; and one that may have many of us flipping through our mental rolodex of failures and misunderstandings only to come up with a…

November 30, 2025  Within languages from all around the world, there exist certain words that simply don’t translate directly to any other culture’s experience of what those words actually, deeply mean.  A definition or description of that word may be provided to reach some basic understanding of its intended meaning, but there is often no…

November 9, 2025 Writing a song using only two notes or painting a picture using just three colors; writing a book that is absent of the letter ‘E’….Call it Minimalism or creative restriction or whatever you wish, this idea of negative space is something that is crucial within the art world; but does it have…