The Assemblagist

The topic? Bullies. Been thinking about grade school through high school, trying to remember who pushed people around at Echols Grade School, Kimmons Junior High or Northside. It's odd to recall cliques 40 years later, hell, who am I kidding... 50 years later. Don't groups begin to form around first grade? Friends come and go, few relationships remain constant throughout adolescence. Less than a handful of people who were the center of my existence during the 1960s still remain in my life. You know who you are. ... read more

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Massive overhaul of studio begun a week ago and still incomplete as I type. It's about emptying boxes of ephemera and cataloging - filing each piece of paper... all the while entertaining my grandballoons who make everything fun and worthwhile. Ollie goes to PBSkids.org and plays online while I sort and stack. Emmett dances the Boy Dance, Four Year Old Version, to music only he can hear. Roxie the Muttpuppy can only be outside in the early a.m. and evening hours since daytime is unbearably dog day afternoon status. Maybe Al Pacino will sneak out from under the giant hydrangeas one of these days... or was it Dustin Hoffman? And, if I don't look it up, google it, will you? ... read more

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