Line of Sight

Not long ago, I was lined up to be the guest soloist at Danville’s Trinity United Methodist Church. This was not something new to me, as I have enjoyed such brief Sunday “song sojourns” to other churches over the years. I have enjoyed the people I met; and they seem to have enjoyed me. The... Read More

Essays

November 11, 2025

Movies You Missed From 20 Years Ago: Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice (7/10 Rating) Released November 23, 2005 Streaming on HBO Max, For rent/purchase on all major platforms. Genre: Costume Drama, Feel-Good Romance, Period Drama, Romantic Epic PG: Some mild thematic elements 2h 9m I have not read the novel, nor seen any other adaptations of this story by Jane Austen, so this... Read More

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November 7, 2025

Whither Thou Goest, So Goest I (A Mamie and Solly Dialogue)

Scene: Mamie and Solly are walking home from dinner along a two-track in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with their two dogs respectively prancing or being dragged along on leashes. Light discussion abounds. Mamie: Beautiful trees, Solly. And the pinesap smells nice. We walking so fast on the way to dinner that we couldn’t even look around.... Read More

Fiction

November 4, 2025

The Reluctant Disney Artist Who Captured Magic

Donald Towns never wanted to work for Disney. Standing in his studio today, surrounded by canvases that capture fleeting moments of light on everyday objects, the 35-year animation veteran laughs at the irony. “I wasn’t interested at all,” he admits, brush in hand, working on a piece where afternoon sun transforms an ordinary leaf into... Read More

Cover Features

October 15, 2025

Ideal

Brilliant, diamond facets glisten, radiant as if finger fitted suns. Worn as rings, nuptial treasures, they showcase love, true, unbreakable, obvious, radiant as any bride’s smile, impervious as trust that has no hardness scale.

Poet's Corner

October 10, 2025

Movies You Missed From 20 Years Ago: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (7/10 Rating) Released October 21, 2005 (Limited) For rent/purchase on all major platforms. Genre: Bumbling Detective, Dark Comedy, Satire, Whodunnit, Crime, Mystery R: Language, Violence, and Sexuality/Nudity 1h 43m One of my hopes with this column is to find genuine film gems I missed when they came out twenty years... Read More

Movies You Missed

October 8, 2025

July in October

No, this isn’t about global warming. But if there can be “Christmas in July,” well, perhaps there can be “July in October!” (not as big a jump as the former, and in the opposite direction). One day back in July, I set out on my regular walk at Ballou Park. The day was already starting... Read More

Essays

October 6, 2025

Tangled Logic and Entangled Bathrooms (A Mamie and Solly Story)

(Scene: Solly is repainting an outside door jamb at home. Mamie breezes in from her morning exercise.) Mamie: Something happened at the gym today. Solly: What? M: I visited a parallel universe. S: …Wait, what…?? M: Parallel universes are real. S (head cocked, brush frozen in mid-stroke): …Whaaaat…? M (nodding in certainty): Finally. Proof for... Read More

Fiction

October 2, 2025

From Martinsville to Brooklyn: How One Designer’s Vision Created a Global Tapestry of Peace

After eight years of painstaking research and collaboration with over 100 artists worldwide, Johnny Selman’s Peace Post project—a collection of 198 digital stamps honoring peace advocates from every sovereign nation—is finally complete. It’s been many miles from Martinsville, Virginia, where his creative journey began. Small-Town Roots, Big-World Vision Growing up in 1980s Martinsville, Selman belonged... Read More

Cover Features

September 18, 2025

Maud Gatewood: Breaking Boundaries Beyond the Canvas

In a modest courthouse square in Yanceyville, North Carolina, a young girl once strapped on a toy gun and holster, accompanying her sheriff father on moonshine raids through the rural backwoods of Caswell County. That fearless child would grow up to become Maud Gatewood, one of the South’s most acclaimed artists and a woman who... Read More

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Line of Sight

Movies You Missed From 20 Years Ago: Pride and Prejudice

Whither Thou Goest, So Goest I (A Mamie and Solly Dialogue)

The Reluctant Disney Artist Who Captured Magic

Ideal

Movies You Missed From 20 Years Ago: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

July in October

Tangled Logic and Entangled Bathrooms (A Mamie and Solly Story)

From Martinsville to Brooklyn: How One Designer’s Vision Created a Global Tapestry of Peace

Maud Gatewood: Breaking Boundaries Beyond the Canvas

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