A lady asked my mother that question a few years back. She was remembering a girl who in high school wore a black star under her left eye, converse high-tops with her long skirts, who didn’t go to the football games much, and who was perversely attached to poetry and music. A girl who seemed [...]
There’s math, and then there’s magic math. In the first kind, sums are tidy, predictable, and remain neatly where you put them. The ledger is quiet, its straight lines creating orderly little cages for the well-behaved numbers that slumber there. In the second kind, sums shimmer and disappear, reappearing in another country, another pocketbook, another [...]
Ideas, sketches, drafts, notions, hints, and creative niggles are the butterflies of our artistic lives. They flutter into view and thrill us with their color and promise. Suddenly, the world is alight and shimmering with beauty. But how quickly those delicate wings can flutter away! How many times have I, bone tired, lain in bed [...]
