To my ear, until fairly recently, the aphorism “age is just a number” rang extremely untrue. Depending on the angle of approach, it sounded like either compassion or delusion, but I think I get it now. I get it because, until fairly recently, I felt bound up in whatever number was mine, as if it […]
As physical portfolios fell out of favor, so mine fell out of use, demoted from its former status as my only meaningful credential to, at best, a repository for samples of the print pieces I’ve continued to design, 5 samples per job, year after year. To what end, though? The samples, I mean. As much […]
“Is that a cat on your wallet?” I’m at the checkout counter paying for a meal. She seems amused. “It is, it is,” I say, amused also, but not because I think the cat wallet is funny, which it objectively is. Rather, I’m amused because she doesn’t know she’s looking at the tip of an […]
