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I am hard at work on my new portrait of The Word and Bird Man. The light is so different in the evenings that we have decided just to work in the afternoon when the light is good. I have a combination of artificial and natural light set up but the natural light plays a big role in the whole effect.
Working on everything else at the same time. Clicking my fingers off on sites and trying to catch up on housework. My Dad firmly believed the key to happiness was activity. I think he was right.
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Clyde Stage Three Original Oil Painting NFS
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Outfits of the Week
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A Time To Kill vs. To Kill A Mockingbird
Adding “To Kill” makes almost any title a little better.
Besides a similarity in titles, there’s not a whole lot in common between A Time to Kill by John Grisham and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. First of all, both books have great titles. It’s tough to mess up a book title when you put the words “To Kill” in it. Adding the words “To Kill” will improve almost any book title. If Gone Girl had been Gone To Kill the Girl, the novel might have won a Pulitzer. If The Goldfinch had been To Kill The Goldfinch, it might have won a Pulitzer AND the Nobel Prize.
If you’ve got a book and you’re not sure what to title it, just throw in the words “To Kill,” and you’re set. The only catch is that you can only use that trick once. If Harper…
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The Fin Fell Off My Paddleboard and Other Metaphors For Our Thirteenth Anniversary
My fin fell off my paddleboard. There was a gentle breeze, an overcast sky, and right next to the rock where the cormorants pose, I dug my paddle in the water to turn my board into the inlet and felt it spin in place.
I switched sides with my paddling and the rotation reversed. I was at a loss.
I had a Plan. I had Goals. I was planning to paddle all the way around the island.
And now I was rudderless, finless, turning lazy circles in front of the bemused cormorants. I spent 25 minutes slowly spinning around the cove in search of my fin in the shallows. From the sky I must have looked like a white and red pinwheel with a Momkini striped center.
It wasn’t at all as I’d pictured.
By the time I’d lugged my finless board back to the house I was positively dejected.
“Mama’s…
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Hamilton and the Tenner
It does seem to me historically tone deaf for the Treasury Dept. to consider taking Alexander Hamilton, of all people, off U.S. currency, of all things, or even reducing his presence there. I can’t say I care who is on the money — easier to have nothing there but graphic design, I think — but if any face should be engraved on money, it’s Hamilton’s. Money is what he was all about.
That obvious fact has recently inspired a burst of Hamilton adulation, summed up in Steven Rattner’s New York Times Op Ed today. Rattner takes the controversy as an occasion for making a boatload of wrongheaded comparisons among the U.S. founders, arriving at the foregone conclusion that Hamilton was morally and politically superior to others. That requires glib assertions that misrepresent Hamilton and end up making no historical sense at all.
Leaning at first on the rickety Hamilton-vs.-Jefferson binary, Rattner says Hamilton created the first U.S. central bank against Jefferson’s fierce opposition. Jefferson did oppose the bank, but it…
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