Mel Curtis

I last communicated with Duane in the spring of 2004. My father was dying and my younger brother in particular was not dealing with it well. Not that I was, but at the time I thought of an image Duane had made about his relationship with his father. On an image of his parents with his brother, Duane wrote about…

Time for a change in the subject line. I had a chat last night with Gemini, the AI talking bot. Have you checked that out yet? I have only played around with it a little but decided to chat with it about my current health condition. At first, it only provided the standard, top of the search answers. But as…

I wanted to mention the passing of Barney Frank, the former congressman from Massachusetts. I am not sure if you know of him or if I ever told you the story of how we came to name our Barney after him. Barney Frank the man was the first openly gay member of congress. Came out at the height of AiDS…

I am glad spring is in full bloom and the days are getting longer. It was a tough winter, and I am glad to see it go. I have the gardens whipped into shape and look forward to puttering around with the tomatoes. I might have a big shoot coming up with Google that I am pondering passing on. I…

With the deck project almost completed and spring coming on, I have been puttering around in the garden and planning for what plants should go where and what new ones to introduce. As I sat in this spot and made this image, I couldn’t help but think of a similar image I made late last summer. One where Barney joined…

I went to see my doc this morning about pain in my legs. Bursitis maybe, nerve pain from too tight of a waistline due the 10 pounds I have gained in the past 2 months. Got some xrays and headed to PT next week and we go from there... that was the easy part of my visit. When she brought…