Month: October 2025

  • urban sketch, five

    urban sketch, five

    I have a mere three sketches left in this October (sub)urban sketching challenge I set for myself. Good thing, too. The weather is starting to become a factor to my outdoor sketching efforts. The one rule that I set for my October month of daily drawing was that they were not just doodles of the

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  • third-place-less

    third-place-less

    I’m sitting in a coffee shop trying to do some writing, but first I needed to get some words off my chest: this was fifth out-of-the house writing location I tried. It’s shortly after lunchtime on a Monday in October and the first four locations I tried—including three other cafes and the local public library—were

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  • head over feets, twelve

    head over feets, twelve

    October has been a bit of a fitness blur. I can’t seem to get it together to get in much swimming these days. Yeah, I know… the pool is only a twenty minute drive away, but twenty minutes each way plus the swim and the other dawdling around that and it seems like I need

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  • weekend wrap, twenty

    weekend wrap, twenty

    I guess this was the final weekend in October, huh? I started this month with a personal art challenge, drawing every day, and so far I’ve kept up my end of the deal. But somehow whenever I immerse myself it the act of doing something daily over the span of a month it seems to

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  • panoramic, three: oculus graffiti

    panoramic, three: oculus graffiti

    There is this strange place literally walking distance from my house.  The graffiti tunnel, more formally known as The Oculus. I say “walking distance” though it did take me over an hour to walk there and an hour to walk home—plus I spent time there taking photos, sketching, making a video and then stopping for

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