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  • What this site is about
  • Reach me
  • Blog
  • Publications
  • Going Places
  • Driving and Drinking with Dracula

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    A magic moment during an artsy mood encounter

    chiselch / October 12, 2022

    Most of my creative energy flows into writing. That river branches into a visual stream. For most of my life, I’ve kept a file of ideas for physical art that came to me…

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    Letter to my son and his lady friend after a long and late night with

    chiselch / January 12, 2020

    Dear Max and Hannah (please share this with her; I don’t have her e-mail), We’re alive. Up, finally, and pouring coffee to the veins. Arrived home at 11:30, then decompressed with whiskey and…

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    Close encounters of the marvelous kind

    chiselch / April 18, 2019

    When the world gives you rain, it also gives you museums. Who wants to be inside when the weather is glorious, no matter how glorious the weather inside? The interior of a building…

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