Ticket for a Seamstitch by Mark Harris This is the third in a series of four novels by Mark Harris… Read more Ticket for a Seamstitch
Author: Rick
My life-long passion is in the arts: music, theater, visual arts, and literature. I graduated from Cal Arts in 1985 with a degree in music composition. After a career in Human Resources with the AIDS Project Los Angeles and as a parish minister for Unitarian Universalist churches in the Los Angeles area, I retired in 2025 and pursued my artistic work: drawing, painting, composing, and creative writing.
Letter A
I had conceived of a show based on the letter A. There would be several large paintings of a single… Read more Letter A
Bang the Drum Slowly
Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris I’ve been reading baseball novels, lately. I picked up Philip Roth’s The Great… Read more Bang the Drum Slowly
The Southpaw
The Southpaw by Mark Harris I really enjoyed the close of the baseball season this year. The Dodgers finished the… Read more The Southpaw
Theodicy
I painted this many years ago, sometime in the mid 1990s I believe. I learned the word “theodicy” when I… Read more Theodicy
Pirouette
I painted these three canvases in 2016 for a corner of our apartment. The middle, yellow, panel was offset from… Read more Pirouette
Black Gotham
Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-century New York City by Carla L. Peterson Jim and I… Read more Black Gotham
The Golden Bowl
The Golden Bowl by Henry James It’s taken me a very long time to read this very long book. I… Read more The Golden Bowl
Double Cross
Triple Portrait
Original photos by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders