The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “balloon”. This is the second of two illustrations I did for the topic. Here is the first. On Thanksgiving Day 1997, Kathleen Caronna was watching the annual Macy’s Parade at 72nd St. and Central Park West alongside her husband and her infant son. In 40 mile-per-hour winds, handlers marching in …
Just prior to turning nineteen, I went to Walt Disney World with three of my friends. This was my first vacation without my parents. I told about this trip in a previous blog post. My first day in Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom was great. After spending a fun but exhausting day, my friends and I headed back …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “opinion”. A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion. Unknown
In the summer of 1980, I took my first real vacation without my parents. It was just before my nineteenth birthday. My two best friends, Alan Salkowitz and Scott Sadel, and I decided that another summer with a three-day trip to Betty’s Rooms in Atlantic City was more than we could stand. We thought a trip …
The challenge word this week on illustrationfriday.com is “wise”. Book of Kings (chapter 3 verses 16-28) 16 Now two prostitutes came to King Solomon and stood before him. 17 One of them said, “My lord, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was there with me. 18 …
The challenge word this week on illustrationfriday.com is “vacant”. “Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.” Louis XIV
The illustrationfriday.com challenge this week is “repair”. This guy is one of the coolest guys I know. And I’ve known him for a very long time. Twenty-one years, as a matter of fact. He began to read at three. He recognized Beatles songs and sang Grateful Dead songs at four. He began to master Hebrew …
The illustrationfriday.com challange this week is “late”. Roger was about to become “the late” Roger.
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “strings”. This is the second of two illustrations I did for the subject. The first can be seen HERE. I found two great (and unrelated) quotes for “strings”, so I decided to illustrate both. “Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “strings”. “All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.” Aldous Huxley This is the first of two illustrations for this topic. HERE is the second.
