Where, if anywhere, can we draw a line between good and evil? Where do the ideas for creating art come from? Anywhere and everywhere, I suppose. Sometimes I think they’re like a bullet out of the blue; other times they’re like a flock of birds or a swarm of bees, converging at a point in […]
In the fable “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a ruler parades in front of his townsfolk nude, somehow having become convinced he is wearing elegant clothing. The people, not wishing to suffer his ire by telling him the truth, oooh and ahhh over his imaginary new outfit. It falls to a child, honest and unafraid, to […]
I grew up in South Dakota’s Black Hills, a small mountain range that looks as if it had gotten pushed up out of the flat prairie earth that spreads out endlessly on all sides. The Black Hills instilled a lifelong love of mountains and forests in me, which must have been on my barely conscious […]
I love movies. Always have. When I was a kid, the Saturday afternoon kids’ double-feature was what I lived for Monday through Friday. I don’t remember the films – Westerns, for sure – but the one I recall from another day at the movies was “Ruby Gentry,” starring Jennifer Jones. Wow, she was hot, and […]