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  Short and sweet, author Jerry Klein’s description of the old Cordage Building where Prairie Center of the Arts and our studios now reside, sums this drawing up nicely: “The [...]

Studio space is shared at Prairie Center of the Arts, but if you can imagine a 90,000 square foot building with four artists in it, you’ll have a sense for how vast the studio space here [...]

A bedroom. It’s a simple thing, really, but here’s the deal: my bedroom in the residents’ house at Prairie Center for the Arts isn’t just a room I throw my stuff down in. [...]

I’m nearing the final turns of the three-year tour, folks, heading northwest from the Airstream to Prairie Center of the Arts in Peoria, IL. THE CLAW abides the open road! I’ll be [...]

Most readers of The Writing Life blog have met my 1989 Volvo station wagon, THE CLAW, before. But if you haven’t, here’s a write up that chronicles some of its journeys and [...]

They say that once you get the bug, you’ve got it for good. Indeed, the cultish obsession my parents and I have developed for Airstreams since we bought the 1970 Sovereign in December is [...]

I’m nearing the end of my stay here in NC and today Dad and I had to tie up some loose ends with the two-person jobs we started this month. Once I’m gone, Dad will be solo again with [...]

And so it goes…another day of trial and error, another day of small successes and frustrations. It’s all part of the deal, and nobody said this would be easy. At the end of the day, [...]

One frame off, seven to go… It sounds simple when the guys on the DIY instructional videos talk about it. Indeed, even to folks who aren’t that “handy,” the idea of [...]

I ventured on a two-day solo backpacking trip earlier this week and managed to get a walking tour of 7 summits in North Carolina’s Black Mountains on video. These are my backyard mountains, [...]