Time for a 2012 Tune-up? Barbara Garro

Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc., said, Our only cleverness was in the perception of what was happening, and in being quick enough to take advantage of it.   Seriously into 2012, have you thought of giving your leadership a mental tuneup? What am I talking about? Give your whole year so far a going [...]

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1. 2012: Keeping the Backside In the Chair
2. Saving Ontario Place
3. Arts Funding Revisited – The Pitch
4. Transcendental Meditation

Saving Ontario Place authorpaulcollins

Concerned volunteers are now sending letters to key politicians to help save Ontario Place.  Several months ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the closure of Ontario Place, which is a historical landmark.  Plans are now under way to replace this public space with a privately run casino.  Presently, a lot of concerned citizens are mobilizing to [...]

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1. The End is Nigh!
2. Arts Funding Revisited – The Pitch
3. Art Detectives
4. Time for a 2012 Tune-up?

Transcendental Meditation Barbara Garro

Mind & Body Tune-up: Have you been thinking you need to do something? You don’t get restful sleep. Your stomach, digestive system is so fouled up you’ve got tablets at home, at work, in the car and you hate it when you forget to put them in your pocket. Would you be surprised, like I am, [...]

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1. Beauty Keeps You Young!
2. The Rembrandt Mystique
3. Selling Men Art
4. Fill in Your Blank (2)

Growing Up Italian in America Barbara Garro

Joanna Clapps Herman tells it like it was for so many Italians growing up in America in the twentieth century.  Every story becomes more telling than the next—what a grounding read. Here, Herman feeds and waters memories now that those who made those memories are nearly all gone and all the important old ones are [...]

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1. Being Italian
2. Flying with Santa
3. This Great America (story)
4. Transcendental Meditation

The Cheerful Saratoga Gardener Barbara Garro

I am a simple gardener–I spade, sow, seed, water, then I plant and wait. Loving variety, I am also an eclectic gardener, never like Secret Garden’s Frances Hodgson Bennett’s garden where three hundred coral-pink roses bloomed. Three hundred roses on my fifty by seventy-five foot plot would require me to move my house, although I [...]

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1. Art Detectives
2. I Got Caught Cheating!
3. Saving Ontario Place
4. What Makes Certain Art Famous?

Selling Men Art Barbara Garro

Is there a typical male art buyer? No more and no less than there is a typical male clothing buyer or car buyer. That still means they buy like men and not like women. Do more men buy animal scenes and sports-related art? Certainly. Still, most men truisms never equate to every man realities. So, [...]

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1. Art Buyer Worries
2. The Rembrandt Mystique
3. Beauty Keeps You Young!
4. What Art Is

Anything Goes Chip Ballard

An article on tolerance got me thinking about Judith Levine and Peter Singer, two people I’d rather not think about. Levine suggests that sex between children and adults in some circumstances is not only okay but actually a good thing for the child. She says most kids will say yes to sexuality at some point [...]

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1. Selling Men Art
2. Options, Should You Take Them?
3. Art Detectives
4. Fill In Your Blank (1)

Before Grandma Died Biolaephesus

She stood in front of the mirror and gave herself a hard look. She searched the old face not particularly shocked with the amount of gray that had increased from the last time she actually looked at herself this way. She noted the crease between her mouth and her chin. The skin was beginning to [...]

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1. Hardee County Woman Died and Lived to Tell
2. The Day A Monster Died
3. Fill In Your Blank (1)
4. The Cig

The Rembrandt Mystique Barbara Garro

Ninety times Rembrandt van Rijn asked the question, ‘Who is Rembrandt?’ And ninety times he answered himself for all the world to see. In commemoration of his 400th birthday on June 15, 2006, I spent the 4th of July with Rembrandt, another independent artist who valued his freedom. Criticized often for poor drawing technique, held [...]

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1. Art Buyer Worries
2. Selling Men Art
3. Conversing with Artists
4. What Art Is

Conversing with Artists Barbara Garro

Loving Art and Conversing with Artists - Having spent decades in Corporate America, living in the artists’ world has brought many delightful surprises and some horrifying questions. I am continually amazed by the questions friends, family, strangers, fellow artists, neighbors, and service providers ask me. Here are some examples of the worst questions that I hope [...]

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1. Artists Painting in Public
2. Selling Men Art
3. Beauty Keeps You Young!
4. What Art Is

Beauty Keeps You Young! Barbara Garro

Franz Kafka said, “Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” Beauty keeps you young. Nothing much has changed about the truth of that statement in thousands of years. People today are still drawn to beauty. They purchase art to bring beauty into their lives. Obviously, everyone has a personal concept of [...]

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1. Artists Painting in Public
2. Conversing with Artists
3. What Art Is
4. The Rembrandt Mystique

The Last Winter of Innocence Bernadette Thompson Martin

By mid-morning, the glorious clear blue sky had vanished. Ominous gray clouds now hung low as the onset of the predicted snowstorm advanced. This was to be a significant event, and severe weather alerts had been issued. In anticipation of the imminent onslaught, my husband and I rushed around the farm to make the necessary [...]

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1. Flying with Santa
2. Beauty Keeps You Young!
3. Growing Up Italian in America
4. Time for a 2012 Tune-up?