December 2, 2010
Mary Richert recently celebrated Thanksgiving with her family. Now Thanksgiving is not a celebration we observe in Australia though Martha Stewart has made me aware that consuming Turkey is a major element of this custom. Something that is perhaps less widely observed is getting together as a family to make stop motion movies, though this is exactly what Mary and her family did.
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April 6, 2010
It’s easy to forget sometimes where your initial passion for an artform came form, especially if you’ve been doing it for a while. It is not surprising that the idea of teenage poetry is such a cliche, because it is a time when there are a lot of changes happening in your life and for perhaps the first time in your life you’re really consciously reflecting upon the world around you and your role within it. Yet in later life we can look back at this period of life with creative contempt. After all the worst thing a person can say about your work is that is ‘sophomoric’ (even if you are a sophomore!).
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