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  • Go warm turkey on screen-time

    Go warm turkey on screen-time

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    It’s Thanksgiving, or near enough to it, and that’s enough of a segue to another article about the benefits of cold-turkeying your phone screentime

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  • Day 13: finally, a little luck

    Day 13: finally, a little luck

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    It’s a truism that aphorisms never track back to the person who supposedly said them. — Mark Twain.1 Gary Player, a golf player who (for the non-golf players) really is called Gary Player, supposedly coined the aphorism,…

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  • Day 12: welp, THAT happened

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    Today’s update is to let you know that I finally bit the bullet1 and emailed a bunch of galleries and sanctuaries about my art.

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  • Day 11: But what about *second* day of rest?

    Day 11: But what about *second* day of rest?

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    It may not surprise you to find out that after 24 hours of feverish gastro I am still not 100 percent; I did in fact spend a chunk of today asleep.

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  • Day 9: Gastro no

    Day 9: Gastro no

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    This is as much fun as I make it sound

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  • Day 8: Sawing the Zs

    Day 8: Sawing the Zs

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    Sawing the Z’s Every day I teeter on the edge of not sending one of these out; every day (or night) I manage to do it anyway. A lot of the pain I experience, mental or physical,…

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  • Day 7: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reanimate

    Day 7: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reanimate

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    I’m now a full-time artist/writer/marketing contractor/consultant/dilettante

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  • Day 5: The Printing Press

    Day 5: The Printing Press

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    I have, true to my word, been absolutely smashing the website. As always when I make Website Stuff I feel like Homer when he’s been up all night eating cheese, or like Billy Joel Armstrong in Brain…

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  • Day 4: Curtains

    Day 4: Curtains

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    Maybe I just give fewer ducks these days.

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  • Day 3: The Midnight Method

    Day 3: The Midnight Method

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    Author, artist, entrepreneur, male model and playboy dilettante’s Joshua Drummond’s otherwise perfect life was marred by just one flaw: his inability to get up after 5 AM.

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  • Challenge Day 2 (of 30)

    Challenge Day 2 (of 30)

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    It’s late; I need to figure out a way to get these emails out before stupid o’clock. You know what doesn’t help? GODDAMN DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME THAT’S WHAT.

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