This is the best picture we’ve ever taken as a family. Our friend Leisa Thompson took it about a year ago. For reasons that still aren’t quite clear to me, we were hanging out inside a giant piece of sculpture at the time. We had a print of it made, and it’s hanging upstairs, about […]
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Totally Quotable Arlo: “No, that’s your daddy” edition
Yesterday evening, upon returning from my pseudo high school reunion in New Jersey, I sat down with Arlo to show him some pictures I’d taken of my old friends drinking beer and trading insults. And, as he was was uncharacteristically attentive, I kept going through my photo archive once we’d reached the end of the […]
Cleaning house… and finding interesting artifacts
I spent much of this past weekend cleaning house. In the process, I found the following: An old drawing that I did of Linette, which I think is really beautiful, and surprisingly accurate. My old favorite photo of myself, which I thought that I’d lost forever. (I don’t believe they still make the synthetic silk […]
Hobnobbing with Mark Maynard makes Metromode’s “10 Things To Do In Metro Detroit Before Summer Ends” list
Earlier today, the folks at Metromode released their top 10 list of things to do in metro Detroit before the end of summer. And, there, right alongside the Northville Victorian Festival and Wyandotte’s citywide garage sale, for some inexplicable reason, was the MarkMaynard.com 10th anniversary party. Here’s what they had to say. Celebrate MarkMaynard.com’s 10th […]
Stop and smell the Maynard
When I relaunched this site a few months ago, for the most part, there wasn’t a lot of criticism. The only thing I got any negative feedback on, as I’ve mentioned here before, is the artwork in the header, which was done by a Canadian artist named Reverend Aitor. It seems that some folks just […]