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The Artful Dodger
ENCOURAGEMENT Following a conversation late last year with Granddaughter #2 about her love of art and plans for the future, I was a little surprised at her reticence to show off her work online the way so many young people do, especially since she planned on a career involving art. She is reasonably confident in the art she produces and receives praise all the time from her family and teachers, so the reaction made little sense to me at the time. We talked about the need for her to build an art portfolio to secure her desired place in further education and eventually employment, but still she was shying away from showing off her work. So I said I would set up a social media account dedicated to showing the world my “art” if she would post…
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The Great Blogger Abduction
To criminally paraphrase the Bonnie Tyler song: where have all the bloggers gone and where are all the blogs? A scant couple of years ago I spent a ridiculous amount of time (thanks to my then newly acquired retired person status) scouting for personal blogs I could read, relate to, and be inspired by when writers block dropped in unannounced. I was a little discouraged at the time because it required a focused search – largely because I wanted to stay away from the “influencer’ type bullshit blogs that have swamped the web over the past few years – and was relieved when I could find some interesting sites written by a wide variety of people. In an effort to get back to keeping something akin to a regular posting regime for this blog I went back…
