Cliff Glenn wasn’t his real name, or so he said. I met him through the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission where I was working at my first real job, getting professional training and working with kids in high school headed for trouble. It was 1973 or so. The funding for…

What a treat — Recovering from social anxiety is quite a treat, to listen to my music, mess with a computer and related gadgets, meeting people, writing, and shooting photos. This writing app by Google Docs is great. I’m exploring my right under the Canadian Charter to express myself. This is part of a new life I’ve built for me. This is like being in one of those 1940’s realism paintings by Hopper.

What is the situation that you are upset about? — betrayal I'm not responsible for other's bad behavior Others likes and dislikes only describe themwww.youtube.com Answer: I was betrayed by trusted persons in the past: childhood (abandonment by parent I didn’t trust them to not leave me in the woods at the church picnic or at the zoo on family outing, I saw them as helpless incompetent even as a 3–4 year old child, as this…

My artnazi first year drawing teacher Well, I finally got to art school. And this is what they gave me for a first year drawing art teacher: a nazi. He was a sculptor who had no notion of the beauty of the handmade mark. Drawing isn’t real, he said. Drawing…

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thank you Tony Soprano, we shared a mother — betrayal I'm not responsible for other's bad behavior Others likes and dislikes only describe themwww.youtube.com OK let’s figure this out. Someone lied to me. They first intimately used me, used my time, creating joy and hope of a promised steady reliable relationship and then revealed their true selves when they got bored with me and my love of boring-to-them things like honesty, generally obeying the…

We carried on our conversation. It was a nice day, having taken out the trash. A tall, intimidating, older, obese man with a hat and a cane dressed in head to toe maintenance worker uniform comes into the coffee shop in Calgary and tries to interject himself into a conversation…

If you are afraid to take a risk then your art is conservative, uninteresting and unengaging. This was my response to Jeff Spalding. We were talking about the current crop of fall art openings in Calgary. …

Once again I go to A Shrink For Men and there she (Tara) is with the gift of explaining the damage to me and my life by bullies. In this case it was mobbing and it used a term that I wasn’t familiar with, so down the rabbit hole I…