Cicada Wings

Cicada Wings, Etc., Pittsburgh, 2019

I was at my mother's condo and on the walkway there were dozens of cicada wings, without any cicadas in sight.  It was raining so I only picked up a few.

Shadow Skull

Deer Skull Study, Pittsburgh, 2016


I liked the idea of the skull emerging out of shadow.

That's A Great Question!

Ants and Figs, Pittsburgh, 2015



I've noticed  a despicable trend that interviewees are employing: Exclaiming, "That's a great question!"  to an ordinary, completely unremarkable question.  This sounds like faux flattery, or possibly a stalling tactic while you cook up a response to an insipid question, or they've lobbed such a softball your way that you get to drone about your favorite topic (yourself) ad nauseum. 
People, everyday people, famous people, anyone at all really, drop 'That's a great question!' from your bag of pat answers.  Come up with something interesting, if not original, if you need to stall and mull over your answer, and have the good sense to NOT talk about yourself like you're something great and wonderful that the world has never seen before.  I am here to tell you that you suck!  unless you're Mother Theresa, and she's dead, you're a regular horrible, selfish human being, and nobody cares what you're thought process is while you tweet.