Hello dear Steemians,       *   I am glad that today is Saturday, for me it is weekend and I am off, I can spend more time with my hobby both painting and Steemit. You may be noticed that I missed

All winter a pair of Northern Cardinals flew around my yard and would sit in the tree outside my desk window. I love birds and living among Cardinals is a new experience for me. Sometimes I find myself

How It All Began For Me Up until 2006 I hadn’t written a short story since my college days more than a decade earlier. All that changed when I was lucky enough to take part in a short story course taught

If you're a reader interested in international books, World Literature Today magazine (WLT), is well worth knowing! If you're a writer, it's simply indispensable. Enthusiastically endorsed by literary

How to speak, respectfully, of the Catholic Church amid the ongoing pedophilia scandals? Having just watched Netflix series, "The Keepers", involving the murder of a nun who attempts to uncover

Yesterday I came across @doctorcrypto's "Sketchbook Spotlight: A place for sketches new and old". I've always loved seeing exhibits that also show the artist's sketchbooks so I like the idea

Dear Steemians, Kindly, forgive my absence. After blogging here, daily, for over a year I experienced something of a crisis of faith re: this platform. In the last two months, I've been trying to focus

A friend of mine recently posted some sketchbook drawings from yesteryear which were frigging awesome. As someone who struggles to find new and engaging things to post, I thought "why am I not doing

Get Featured There are countless stories emerging out of the crypto world. And as with any new industry - it can be incredibly difficult to sift through the speculation, drama, hype and price action. Our

here I'm assembling a repeating tile design If you’re a creative, you have no doubt contemplated the market, the financial end of your dreams and how to balance this with your creative process. I have

Doing the best you can with what you’ve got personifies how my father, Verlo Walton, has lived his life. When my parents were raising my brother and I he worked his day job as a welder and took on a variety

This is a whopper of a true story. Although not my personal story, it is so poignant and heartwarming that I want to share the love, so that others can enjoy it, too. Most importantly, Mary’s story will

There was once a spidery contents here but a spider has now put them inside coccoons.... Like Shelob did with Frodo Baggins~ Or maybe like those fleshy things in Aliens before the chestburster bursts out

Inspiration has never been in short supply when it comes to my creative process and I always have an abundant flow of good ideas for things to create. However, the time and energy to put all of these in

Although Bitcoin has lost 83% of its value since december 2017, Bitcoin is far from dead. On the contrary! Here are just a couple of reasons why I am very bullish on Bitcoin in the long term. Bitcoin Hash

Another Black and White drawing to share: Here is the entire piece: As some will recall, I shared this piece this #inktober creating it then. Lately I've been wanting to take this hard work and prepare

Shared compromises, a rare respite from the extremes of this age of divisiveness. Cloistering, to explore the universes within, preserving your uniqueness from the intrusion of electronica. Search, to

These days I love tile projects that are meditative and don’t ask too much of me creatively. This might sound counterintuitive since I'm an artist and after all isn't creativity my thing? Yes, yes absolutely,

Happy Saturday everyone, it’s been a pretty good week here in my little corner of life and I hope it has been in yours as well. It feels so good to finish, pack up and ship art that I’ve been working on

I'm going to create two separate posts: one post is for discussion of the relative merits of the two proposals (THIS POST) and a separate post where Steemians can cast their vote for one of the two options