An Expat Painter in Paris; the Pain and the Passion

Excerpts from the upcoming book

Feeling Joy While Painting

Finally able to overcome the negative self-talk and enjoy the process of painting

In the In-Between at La Lutece

A foul combination of heat and jetlag woke me up at 4:30am. It was still dark out, and as I opened my shutters the partiers across the...

Terror attacks the night I arrive in London

I was unpacking my clothes for my week-long stay in London when I began to hear sirens. My first thought was that they're like...

100+ answers to the question, "What is the purpose of art?"

I had the thought again. It's usually a variation on, "What makes you think you're good enough to be a full-time artist? And what purpose...

Do You Deserve to Be Happy? Here's how to tell.

RuPaul says, "If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love anybody else?" Part of loving yourself is allowing yourself to...

Don't call it "Czechia" and five other things I learned in Prague

I know, when you enter an address in Prague in google maps the result says the address is in "Czechia". Since I always make efforts to...

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