I've been thinking of writing a Christmas story.  When I was little, this really remarkable woman gathered artistically leaning people a...

 I've seen this painting making the rounds today and really wanted to know more about it.  It looks like a medieval painting, but it...

Sometimes, I lose control of my stories.  Earlier today, I tried to write down how this girl once spent several minutes slapping and punchin...

 Charles Addams and his wife before College Hall, the structure at the University of Pennsylvania that inspired the mansion seen in the Adda...

  A teacher at the Laurel Magnet School of the Arts and former winner of the Mississippi Educator of the Year, Landon Bryant is the creator ...

 Some of the best students of literature and history I ever met were electricians and plumbers in the daytime.  Some of the best carpenters ...

 Every artist has a very recognizable style.  William Tuttlel was responsible for some of the most remarkable prosthetic makeups in film (pr...

 In 1978 I was fifteen years old.  It was the first year I ever fully experienced the darkness inside me.  My family fought through an extra...

 In her song “I Know Victoria’s Secret,” singer Jax reveals that Victoria’s secret is that she was made up by an old man living in Ohio.  Sh...

It's my hope that I can show you more than I tell you in my book, but since these are imaginary people, I have to decide what to tell yo...

While I haven't actually been asked to do this, I'm constantly trying to defend my novel, at least to myself.  Why is it worth writi...

It’s been about a year since I started letting the world read my daily journals or significant parts of them.  I began writing them forty-fi...

If you visit Eudora Welty's house and museum, you can see some of her typewriters.  How a writer writes is very important, especially fo...

A lot of people find things they don't understand are intimidating.  It's a natural reaction.  If you don't know what's in a...

In 1935, a young actor named Humphrey Bogart (his real name) got his first starring role on Broadway in a play called "Petrified Fore...

This is a story about memory, and family, and art.  This is a story about Mississippi and happiness and a story about love. Yesterday my sis...

For many years, I studied Ayn Rand's Objectivism pretty closely. I saw her ideas, combined with libertarianism, as the solution to most ...

I never much cared for Andy Warhol. His contemporaries like Andrew Wyeth and Jackson Pollock did amazing things working with the traditiona...

Sometimes artists many years apart have similar ideas. Below is J. Stuart Blackton's The Enchanted Drawing, produced in 1900 YouTube Ove...

Turandot is the fairy tale of a princess who riddles her suitors and if they fail, she beheads them. Calaf uses the power of true love to a...