My good friend Dr. Mark Gibbs is a philosophy professor and a fellow Eastern Orthodox Christian, like I am. Gibby as I affectionately call him has a personal philosophy which he refers to as “basking”. Basking is short for “basking in the rays of the uncreated light of Christ.” Basking…

The following quote is from the book Art & Fear pg 104: “In Art as well as in Science, the answers that you get depend on the questions that you ask.” Art & Fear is one of those books which should be required reading for every artist alive. It doesn’t…

For the past year or so I have been experimenting with painting cigar boxes. My first attempts were all boxes which were painted white and then had abstract designs painted on them.

I called my confessor priest and good friend Fr. Jim the other day and he mentioned he had brought me up in a recent bible study. The study was in the book of Genesis however one of the participants skipped forward to the book of Exodus. The parishioner inquired of…

After my recent move, I set up the first of my three aquariums in my new home. The pictured tank is a 29-gallon long with fancy goldfish in it. The other two aquariums are 55-gallons and will also have fancy goldfish in them. Those two are waiting for the stands…

I have always wanted to start an essay paraphrasing the opening to the Acts of Apostles. RSV Acts 1:1 “In the first book, O Theoph′ilus, I have dealt with all that…” I guess this is as close as I will ever come to that. In my first essay on “In…