I've sort of taken on a painting commission by suggesting I could paint a picture, as a birthday present, for a friend's father in law.

Dear dad, it seems that Canada, and the rest of the world, is a little miffed with the United States right now.

If anyone is attempting the exercises in Ursula K. Le Guin's Steering the Craft, I'm open to exchanging critiques.

I've got a lot of art supplies. I mentioned this to my daughter and she said "why not paint the birds on our bird feeder?".

Dear dad, Nobody in our childhood peer group played ice-hockey - the equipment was too expensive - but we did play a lot of road-hockey.

My retirement story continues, with very few changes – if you were being charitable, you would call it boring.