A great race is upon the children of the meadow and the flowers, they are a-frightened… Every year in June, not July or August, the children of Moonwater Meadow (by children I mean a small round spider, a tall twitchy rabbit, a super-heroic field mouse, a cuddly koala and a pair of bear brothers) gather…
Creative minds often have a hard time swallowing the idea that our output will be judged. We have enough trouble with the likes of impostor syndrome, resistance and self-doubt. I suppose it’s just part of our particular grind. Most of the time it is an intern ally generated image based on faulty programming. It can…
Top Ten Reasons Books (and Reading) Suck By Tom Serafini File under Satire. Unless you know someone to whom this applies… Books. Who needs ’em? I mean, Everyone is so busy these days. Who has the time to read a whole actual book? I don’t. I’m so busy with all my social media posts and…
On some days, the quest for flight involves items of questionable safety where Ollie Bug is concerned. Safety isn’t exactly Job One , but it’s somewhere down the list. You should never ask to see the list. Ollie and his friends throw together bits of wood, metal and whatever else looks lighter-than-air in hopes defying…
I know someone who has never seen Star Wars. Any of them. He’s 55. How is that possible? He barely knew what the Death Star Was. The Death Star!!! I’m rather proud of the fact that my grandmother took my ten year old self to the movies to see the original Star Wars no less…
Today brings another Ollie-Holi-Day in Moonwater Meadow. Ollie loves holidays and does a really good job making up these special days. Since he’s very popular they catch on quick. Today is Dress Like your Favorite Superhero Day. It’s as simple as it sounds: everyone is in costume like some small version of Comicon. They take…
I have this little thing for National Observation Days. So does my pal, Ollie Bug.Sometimes they’re cute and funny. Sometimes they raise awareness for good causes and social issues. Sometimes they make me aware of days when it’s permissible to eat as much chocolate as I can get my hands on. Yesterday was National Bat…
An Ollie Bug story that begins with the indisputable fact that spiders do not fly. Spiders can do many marvelous and impressive things. They can spin webs and hang from them in a menacing manner. Although very scary, they’re really using the web to get better TV or radio reception. They can jump and bounce…
I don’t usually title landscape paintings with names like Autumnal Solitude. I’d rather let the viewer imagine their own title. However for the sake of clarity it’s easier to refer to Autumnal Solitude by name rather than, “The square one with the orangey tree”. Sometimes I make things that don’t necessarily go in Ollie’s books…
Today in the meadow there is pizza. Well, there’s usually always pizza but today is different. Today is Treehouse Pizza Party Day, another Ollie holiday. This means the meadow itself is very quiet. There are no random rocket launches or subsequent uncontrolled fire. There is no sound of video games and no bemoaning boredom. Up…