How to Start an Awesome Day
There is nothing like this feeling. The wind in your face, the weight of your ride held high over yo...

The funny thing about this painting is this was the visualization I had of the first house I owned, a nearly dilapidated post-war house in Grants Pass, Oregon. A mean oak tree had buckled the driveway, lifing it three feet from the ground, and threatened the converted garage foundation, there was nothing but a three step stoop, by the front door, and the door was actually a delaminated mahogany interior door that was thin as paper.
Two years later it looked almost exactly like this, without the driveway slab but with a square step, rail, and porch railing, every brick carefully laid by my own hand.
There is nothing like this feeling. The wind in your face, the weight of your ride held high over yo...
There are creatures among us who live without drama or distraction, who manage to make the world eve...
Several years ago I was near poverty, struggling to fetch out a living in a southern Oregon town, li...
Some cats like their backs scratched. Some like to flop in your lap whenever they damn well feel lik...