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There’s no other way to explain it other than to say that sometimes you just have to pick up and go, no matter what else you’re in the middle of…and so it was that I found [...]

I’ve been trying to cipher a map that represents my 2 1/2 years on the road and for months I’ve been coming up short. Would I map routes of travel by car? Plane? Foot? Would side [...]

If you’re curious about the first installment in this exploration, click here. I continued polling folks from the Midwest via this blog and Facebook, and the variety of their responses [...]

More than anything, it’s the songbirds that suggest wilderness here in Peoria, IL. At the studio downtown, I often each lunch outside under two trees, just a stone’s throw from a four [...]

*There’s a free offer for close readers of this blog post… This much time on the road has taught me that each residency has its purpose and impact. Two weeks into my time here at [...]

A filmmaker friend of mine has encouraged me to keep playing around with film, so I gave myself 45 minutes this morning to walk around the old Peoria Cordage Company building (where our studios [...]

It seemed so obvious once I realized it, but basically the thought is this: There are parts of my personality and patterns of behavior that I haven’t accessed for two and a half years. When [...]

It’s been one week of “commuting” to “work” on a “schedule” at Prairie Center of the Arts and, so far, it suits me. The commute is, of course, riding [...]

In my quest to find out what is “quintessentially Midwestern,” I gathered a few quotes over the weekend about the impact of this region on folks who grew up here. Former student [...]

I’ve never spent time in the “Midwest” before and it’s been unusual approaching a city and landscape that I feel no personal or historical connections to. As a lover and [...]