Tag Archives: ART

Can’t Sleep -Pen and Ink at 2 a.m.

I couldn’t fall asleep last night, so at about 2.a.m, I gave up and broke out my india ink and favorite pen. After about 2 hours of drawing, I ended up with what is either a completely nonsensical comic strip or yet another glimpse into how my mind works. Maybe both.

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The picture is 9″ X 12″ and the black of the ink is a lot nicer than the scan shows…

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My Coloring Book page 4

Lisa and I were at the Rocket in Ypsilanti yesterday. I noticed 2 additions to the “grown-up coloring book” genre: Mazes and Extreme Dot to Dot. So, I couldn’t resist making a maze.

Try it! It should print fine at 8.5X11. Try to get from either X to the other. And yes, there is definitely a solution.

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Now, I have to get busy and catch up on 3 days worth of email I’ve been ignoring while doing yardwork, playing guitar, and drawing pictures.

ADHD Coloring Book page 1

Coloring books for adults seem to be the Big Thing right now.

I thought it would be fun to take some of my drawings and post them so folks can print and color them themselves.They were created to be 8.5X11″ and the download size is about 250Kb, so really small.

Now, being that this is site is ADHD-related, the drawings are mostly impossible structures, so have fun. These kinds of drawings make sense to me, they challenge the idea of concrete reality in a way I find really appealing.

More to come.

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Poetry Book Release!! (chapters on ADHD and Grief)

“Provisional Conclusions” is now a reality!

The book contains 53 poems and is organized in 4 sections: “Thinking Out Loud”, “The ADHD Chapter”, “Loss”, and “Love and Nervous Energy.”cover_FINAL

This is from the back cover blurb:

“A diagnosis of ADHD at age fifty-five can make you stop and think. So can losing your daughter to a drunk driver two days after her eighth birthday—or looking up at the majesty of the Big Buddha in Phuket after getting lost in the mountains on the way there.

“Spanning a period from high school in the seventies until a few hours before it went to the editor, the poems in Provisional Conclusions explore these topics and more: being a parent, being a man, living with ADHD, the legacy of Howard Thurman, the myth of objectivity, the delight and terror of raising a family, the dreams of Korczak Ziolkowski, and even a quick peek into hell. Poet Mike Fedel also considers race, sex, love lost and found, philosophy, consciousness, and God—what is she like, anyway? Sections include “Thinking Out Loud,” “The ADHD Chapter,” “Loss,” and “Love and Nervous Energy.”

“Offering accessible observations on a wide range of topics, the verses in this collection consider the raw emotions associated with love, grief, and ADHD.”

If you do buy a copy, please post comments on the site where you made the purchase, it helps writers in the long run for them to see feedback.

AND feel free to make any other comments here or email me directly.

I hope you enjoy some of these poems. Find you favorites and let me know!

Thanks!

Quick history: Over a year ago now, my good friend Catherine Powers asked me “when are you going to put together a collection of your poems?” We’ve both been writing since high school (at least!) and she’d recently put out her own wonderful collection 28 Years Since My Last Confession (check it out!). I went through my writing, both old and new, and chose the ones I hoped would make people smile, think, and feel something.

Portrait Class

Last week, I sat in on a portrait drawing class with my friend Karen. Portraits have always escaped me, something about capturing all the subtleties of light and contour just doens’t seem to register. And that’s nothing compared the idea of trying to capture the person’s personality or emotional state.
That said, I’m not unhappy with the results.

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