Daily watercolors based on images from The New York Times from 4.14.19 to 4.30.19
4.25.29 Pakistani Muslims Fleeing Sri Lanka photo Adam Dean
4.23.19 Ramapough Lenape Nation sues town of Mahwah, New Jersey. photo: James Estin
4.22.19 Easter suicide attack on St. Anthony's Shrine in Sri Lanka. photo: Dinuka Lianawatte
4.21.19 From a feature about injuries sustained by WNBA players, so this photo of Breanna Stewart is from 2018, but I couldn't resist. photo: Brad Mills
4.20.19 Columbine Memorial. photo: Daniel Brenner
4.19.19 Attorney General William Barr Defends President photo: tom brenner
5.18.19 Shrinking Glaciers in Alaska. Photo: Max Whittaker
4.17 Duke and Duchess of Sussex photo: Ben Stansall
4.16.19 President Rekindles A Campaign Threat of Peril from Islam photo: Tim Gruber
4.14.19 Migrants Flee New Threat: Climate Change photo: César Rodriguez
Prompt: a duplex, per Jericho Brown The air so still it makes my heart thrum. I can hear the strumming robins’ wings as they dart and dip beneath the dippling lilac bough that came down in the storm,
On Writing a Novel If I knew how to write a novel, it would be about two sisters in a big, fractured family. They’re in the middle. One tries, all her life, to understand the other. She thinks of her
On Learning to Paint More often than not, I’ve simply stood in dumb awe at the world, unmoving, unable to speak, a gasp held tight in my chest. Near my heart. But now, I load my brush with cobalt, red