The Old Masters knew a secret which made their paintings enduring masterpieces.

You were too big a boy or girl to have mommy leave a light on. There were no “nightlights” plugged into wall outlets back in those days.

My mother was a math teacher. She was kind of famous in the county where she taught. Some folks told me she probably taught over half the kids in the county over her lifetime. It seems they either loved her or hated her. There was no in-between with mom.

Your paintings are the windows to your soul.

My daughter-in-law Nicole texted us this morning with a video she secretly recorded of our granddaughter Sloane.

Bob Hoffman is a popular speaker and author in the field of advertising and marketing. He is an outspoken critic of digital marketing in particular. He doesn’t spare his peers in the traditional marketing realm either. His quote below applies to both spheres.

Did you know ninety-seven percent of American adults send text messages every week, if not every day? Since 97% pretty much includes everyone, I guess it’s no surprise we send over six billion texts every day.

Is this an accurate statement? For master artists – maybe. How about the rest of us? I don’t know about you, but the only thing I see in my work are mistakes. There seems to be no worse critic than ourselves.

A “polymath” is a person whose expertise spans many domains – or subject areas. Leonardo was a polymath. He lived during the Renaissance, so Leonardo is the quintessential “Renaissance Man.”

Do you remember watching television on Saturdays when you were a kid?

One of these quotes is attributed to Socrates. The other is to a Chinese philosopher who wrote one of the foundational texts of Taoism.