It's A Miracle to Behold That Some Things Are Still Standing

 January 27, 2026

   At this stage of my life, every day I am still here is a miracle to me. I have lost so many friends in the past couple years it's a bit of a drag.

Santa Fe's oldest building and Arizona's oldest cartoonist. It's a miracle, both are still standing.

(November 20, 2020)

   When you hit your late seventies a couple things start to come into focus: for one thing, some life lessons turned out to be the opposite of what I thought. For example. . .

   If things are going to remain the same, something has to change.

Things I Wish I Had Known Earlier

   If your art teacher hates what you are doing it's probably a good sign.

   All success does is give you a ticket to a bigger problem. With Fleetwood Mac's humongous success, Stevie Nicks admits she snorted a million dollars worth of cocaine up her nose in one year. Put another way: Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money. 

   Do not abandon the past. It leads to where you want to go. Put another way, I couldn't wait to get out of Kingman, but today, almost all of my art and heart lead straight back to that dusty berg.

   It was a lucky boy who grew up with these kids.

   Whatever you believe, the opposite is also true. For example to think there was once a time when adults wanted me to take a nap! Ha. Don't push me, I'll take two!

"The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting it go."

—Carl Jung

A Headline I Never Thought I Would Live to See

SIDNEY SWEENEY DID NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO CLIMB THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN AND HANG BRAS

I Admit, Some Curses Hit Me Where I Live

"There's nothing stronger than an unwritten book's fascination with its author."

—A.J. Hackwith

Daily Whip Out: "Old Pueblo Hitcher"

"There are two kinds of men in the world. Those who have a crush on Linda Ronstadt and those who don't know who she is."

—Willie Nelson