This week’s inspirational word on Inspire Me Thursday is “chair”. My brother was born in 1957. The Pincus family was a nice, sweet, calm family for four and a half years. Then little Josh was born and all hell broke loose. It began when I was brought home from the hospital. My parents thought it …
Oliver Sipple stood in the crowd. He was no different from the other 3,000 people gathered outside San Francisco’s St. Francis Hotel hoping to catch a glimpse of President Ford. As the President emerged from the building, Oliver looked and saw the woman next to him pull out a .38-caliber pistol and aim it at …
In his thirteen season career, Donnie Moore posted a 43-40 record and a 3.67 ERA. He was even selected to the All-Star team in 1985. Donnie’s downfall came on October 12, 1986. He was pitching for the Angels in Game 5 of the 1986 American League Championship Series in Anaheim. The Angels held a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven …
This week’s challenge on Illustration Friday is “magnify”. Sure, he dropped an anvil on his foot, but Gerald’s pain was magnified by the vice clamped on his head.
The word of inspiration on the Inspire Me Thursday illustration blog is “pear”. The poor pear. The pear has always gotten a raw deal. It’s been treated as a second-class fruit the red-headed stepchild of the produce world. New York City is “The Big Apple”, not the “Big Pear”. An endearing term for a …
The Monday Artday current challenge is “old me” . (Do a self-portrait as you imagine you might look like when you are very old). I imagine this is how I will look approximately eighty years after the picture on the wall.
The word of inspiration on Inspire Me Thursday is “cupcake”. As mentioned many, many times on this blog, I love going to Disney theme parks. I went to Walt Disney World for the first time when I was nineteen. My wife and I went to Walt Disney World on our honeymoon. We took our son …
The Illustration Friday challenge word this week is “caution”. A Cautionary Song by The Decemberists There’s a place your mother goes when everybody else is soundly sleeping Through the lights of beacon street And if you listen you can hear her weeping, She’s weeping, cause the gentlemen are calling And the snow is softly falling …
The illustrationfriday.com current challenge is “wrapped”. I actually did this drawing almost three years ago, waiting for the Illustration Friday word to be “wrapped”. FINALLY!
This week’s illustrationfriday.com challenge is “impatience”. There was nobody that ever lived that was as impatient as my father. Perhaps it started when he was a child. He and his parents lived at eight different addresses on West 52nd Street in Philadelphia. They kept moving up the block. My father told me it was because each …
