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4 days ago
5 min

The Obstacle is the Way, Book Review (Kinda)

The Obstacle Is The Way, by Ryan Holiday is written primarily for entrepreneurs and business people, but it could just as well be written...

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Oct 13
1 min

A Delightful Suprise

A few years ago, I got a text from a friend who asked "Tell me this is yours". She was thumbing through Architectural Digest and bam, the...

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Aug 18
2 min

Frypan and the Hare

Several years ago, while frying eggs in an iron skillet I started to admire the form of the pan. And as artists do, I thought "I should m...

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Coming of Age In Palm Springs, California.

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Jul 19
4 min

Coming of Age In Palm Springs, California.

My sister loved her rabbit fur coat. She loved it so much that I figured I could make a killing off of rabbit pelts. There were cottontai...

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Jul 14
3 min

9 Secrets to a Successful Art Career

In 2008, I was one of six emerging artists at Indianapolis, Indiana for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. It was th...

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Jul 8
3 min

Cringe

For the past few days, we've been talking around the house about our former selves. The consensus is if we're not cringing at the way we ...

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Jun 28
2 min

Try New Things

It gets more difficult to try new things the more entrenched I am with what I know. Expanding my skills and learning something new is pai...

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russell wrankle

Jun 22
2 min

Adagio for Strings

I'll never be able to listen to Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber (1910-1981) without thinking back to an evening with Sarah and Noel, ...

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russell wrankle

Jun 21
2 min

Growth and Fixed

My mom loved Elvis. She even went to one of his concerts in Vegas when I was a kid and brought back an LP. So it was obvious that I had t...

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