Stephen Bauman. Oil. Isn't she adorable? This is a stage in the process of the painting, and I think Stephen decided to remove the bird on her shoulder, which breaks my heart. Know when to stop. Stephen is an amazing artist who studied classical techniques in an...

Degrees of separation. I was in Europe in the late 1980s and bumped into the actor Donald Sutherland while standing in a queue at a ticket counter at the Orly airport in Paris. One of his best known roles was that of Vernon Pinkley in the 1967 film adaptation of the...

At Little Rock Catholic High School, in Father Tribou's English Literature class, we were expected to memorize and recite Hamlet's soliloquy, to perform it before our fellow students. "To be, or not to be..." I can hear it in my head to this day. That play has always...