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Well, Tempe, actually, but I couldn’t pass up the chance to use the “word” phrom.  And really, it’s just the next town over.  Though I’m sure my friends in Tempe would take umbrage to such a flippant dismissal of the differences, as I’m wont to do when airline pilots tell me that we’re landing inContinueContinue reading “Philosophical phonderings phrom Phoenix”

I seem to recall, around this time last year, writing a similar post about my adventures in my beloved Madison, WI.  This time (over the weekend of 10/13-10/16), I was back in town for a board meeting; doesn’t it sound terribly impressive that I serve on the board of my super-awesome graduate program at theContinueContinue reading “From Farm Art to Football – a weekend in Madison”

Originally written on10/8/11Since I came back from my awesome adventures in Colorado, I have felt in better spirits than I can remember in quite some time.  The heavenly fall weather doesn’t hurt, that’s for sure.  I find myself in the strange position of feeling good about work, my progress in getting healthier and my hopesContinueContinue reading “My good mood will not be defeated”

Despite my public statements to the contrary, I don’t really have much use for terms like “important” when it comes to art.  When someone tells me that an artist or an artwork is important (thus implying that I’m ignorant or uncultured for not caring about her or it), I have to quell the urge toContinueContinue reading “Martha Graham is not a cracker”

As I sit in a cozy chair by the window of my Inn (the only one near the outlet) patiently waiting for the mess the airlines made of my flights to be sorted out, I’ve stumbled upon a bit of mystery. I just looked out through the film of the gauze curtain and realized I’mContinueContinue reading “Musings from an Inn…”