Daniel - October 27, 2026 The Making of a Mandala From a table top at Home Depot to hundreds of nails and a long thread. How a string mandala gets made, one step at a time, and why it is never a secret project.
- October 19, 2026 So You Want to Be an Author (Part One) The first in a short series on how hard it really is to write and publish a book. We start with motivation, the writing itself, and the first wall every author hits, publishing.
- October 8, 2026 How Hard Could It Be? A self-taught painter decides to write a novel. A dozen coats, a lot of orphaned canvases, and what the characters taught me about myself.
- October 1, 2026 Made in Los Angeles A reader asked whether the gangs in Sanctuary are real. They are. On MS-13, Barrio 18, the crackdown that followed, and the road through Honduras.
- September 29, 2026 On boredom We have lost the ability to sit still and enjoy what is around us. A case for empty afternoons, rainy windowsills, and letting the mind wander.
- September 25, 2026 On experimentation Every six months I pick up something new. Some of it sticks, plenty of it does not, and along the way I learned that patience and a little grace are the whole game. Plus my newest mixed-media piece, the Dreaming Girl.
- August 21, 2026 Beauty is resistance The Jaguar is one of my favorite chapters in Sanctuary, not for the obvious reasons. It touches the past, the present, and the future, and it asks what we really mean by culture, heritage, beauty, and goodness.
- August 14, 2026 On writing the wrong direction How Sanctuary began, from a Chicago winter and a police-station drop-off to the choice of an American teenager as its narrator.