by Avery White | Aug 2, 2016 | Challenges
I love chocolate cake. Really. In fact, I love chocolate cake so much that I went through the trouble to learn how to make myself a decent one (and how to modify the recipe so my wife can eat it too; she can’t have dairy). And it’s the best in the world....
by Avery White | Jul 12, 2016 | Meta
The trick is to be the sort of blogger that doesn’t use art, but that joins forces with it. I want people to engage with what is written as well as what is visual. I want people to not just glean from a blog post, but from the art that helps it. I want people to...
by Avery White | Jun 28, 2016 | Spotlight
“Can you see?” Someone from the Brazos Valley Arts Council whispers, noticing I’m in the back on tip-toe trying to glimpse beauty. I tell her no. She ushers me clear past the first gallery and into the room where Christy Cisneros is talking about her work. I...
by Avery White | Jun 21, 2016 | Challenges
“Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.” – Ann Voskamp Art Changes the Artist I started writing another short story this weekend. It’s for someone I barely know. My protagonist is wildly different from me, and...
by Avery White | Jun 7, 2016 | Spotlight
I Don’t Know These Guys But that word written above them in yellow has unlocked a world of communication. It’s not a character, a country, or even an ideology. It’s a language. Actually, it’s an international auxiliary language (IAL), a class...