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I'm not sure what the new normal for the world will be, but over the course of the last few weekends, I've undertaken a few mini-adventures to some of the local small towns near Atlanta.  For the most part, everyone still seems to be socially distancing (which is good)...

Of all the various book cover designs for Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time, I always preferred these:
 

Should anyone in the Atlanta area be in search of an event to attend this weekend, myself and other artists would love to see you in the artist's alley of Seishun Con.  Held in the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, the convention will include lots of anime, games, and art cent...

A companion site, "Sparky the Sassy Android," is now live.  Please feel free to swing by for a visit ... I hope that you enjoy my new web comic series.  Not much in the way of media is available at the moment for Sparky's debut, but that will of course change in time....

“The world is violent and mercurial–it will have its way with you.  We are saved only by love–love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend.  We live in a perpetual...

Recently, an author that I enjoy, Scott Heim, shared the following video clip via Twitter of Toni Morrison's Nobel speech from 1993.  I wanted to share it here also.  The story told through Morrisson's speech is still relevant today:

 

“Would you like a cup of tea?”

It’s a question that was asked, seemingly every few hours, while visiting my beau’s family in Ireland.  During our travels through Europe, tea and pastry shops were everywhere.  As he and I walked along busy streets in London, Dublin, or...

Sometimes, after buying a carton of eggs from the grocery store, we arrive back home only to drop and break every single one of them.  Sometimes, as we go throughout our day, we hit a pothole in the road; the same pothole we’ve hit many times before, and it finally blo...

Having long enjoyed Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, to say that I was excited to hear about a new Netflix series is an understatement.  The rise and fall of the naive Mary Ann Singleton and the exploits of 28 Barbary Lane's inhabitants captured my heart several y...

Born of the 80s, I spent many childhood afternoons rushing home from school to watch a variety of cartoons.  While mornings were reserved for the likes of Casper the Friendly Ghost, Pink Panther, and Looney Tunes, my weekday afternoons were mainly filled with...