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250 Words on Professional Identity
We have an excellent art supply store in town that offers working artists a professional discount.
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250 Words on Mathematics
I have little patience for adults who complain/brag they never use the math they learned in school.
Jan 6
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250 Words on Art as Therapy
I’ve written two nonfiction graphic novels about bad things that happened in my life: Mom’s Cancer, about my mother’s experience with metastatic cancer…
Dec 30, 2025
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250 Words on Nostalgia
Author John Koenig coined the word “anemoia”: a sense of nostalgia for a past you never experienced.
Dec 23, 2025
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250 Words on Starhopping
Two weeks ago I wrote about one of the perks of being an amateur astronomer, which is sensing when I’m seeing something unusual in the sky before my…
Dec 16, 2025
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250 Words on Disneyland
When I was a child in South Dakota, I knew about Disneyland long before I visited it, thanks to an hour-long advertisement called “Walt Disney’s…
Dec 9, 2025
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250 Words on Knowing the Night Sky
I’ve been an amateur astronomer most of my life, peaking in college when I had access to good telescopes and worked as an astronomy lab teaching…
Dec 2, 2025
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250 Words on Comedy
Several months ago, I saw some classic “Popeye” cartoons from the 1930s in a theater with 100 other people.
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I'm a writer, cartoonist, and sometime-science-guy who tries to start most mornings writing 250 words on anything. I post one of the good ones every Tuesday.
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