Category Archives: The artist

Okay, okay. I’ll get rid of some books, Martha

This by David Dalla Venezia. One of his pictures is used as the cover for Ray Pawson book, Evidence-based Policy: A Realist Perspective (London: SAGE, 2006). I picked it up today to reread some passages. Pawson included some links to Venezia’s work and I saw this. It captures what others have described and what I’ve [...]

Letter from Chris Raschka

We checked our post office box yesterday and found a letter from New York City. The return address was on Riverside Drive. It was a note from the illustrator, Chris Raschka. We had written him a letter thanking him for allowing us to use one of his illustrations as a logo.
(When we were first married [...]

Land of the free/home of the brave and e e cummings and hot dawgs

We had friends over last night with their kids for hot dawgs and pizza  topped off with the fireworks from the Cumberland River. Here in upper Nashville’s Germantown neighborhood we are within a short walk to an ideal spot from which to watch the fireworks. And they were an “extravaganza.” There were lots of oohs and [...]