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Of the season, and a milestone

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My latest on Medium Online is "The End of the Beginning: Eight of Sabin Howard's Doughboys Get Ready to Go Back to Europe." 

I wrote it to share--to celebrate--a milestone: Sabin and his stalwart team have finished principal sculpture on the first grouping of eleven figures from A Soldier's Journey. 

I'm so proud of our sculptors Sabin, Charlie, and "Raymond." They've worked with focus and dedication...

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Art and Representation

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Author Traci L. Slatton muses on art and representation, ely concerning Sabin Howard's Bust of Ceres sculpture.

My husband Sabin Howard can sculpt. Think Carpeaux, Canova, or Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Think Michelangelo. He says, "Art represents us. How do we want to be represented?" It's a fair question...

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Factual Error in The New Yorker: Is this how fake news starts?

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Author Traci L. Slatton writes about how The New Yorker misquoted her husband sculptor Sabin Howard, creating a factual error. Dedicated to all the women whose ideas have been misattributed to a man and who were told to leave it be and not to rock the boat.

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La Serenissima

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La Serenissima,It's true, I prefer the Florentine painters. The clarity and bright colors and sweet spirituality of Giotto, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Fra

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Epistolary Fiction

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Epistolary Fiction. This is an old form of novel, the novel in documents, usually letters, that is morphing into blog letters-posts.

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Day 5: Letter to a friend

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Day 5: Letter to a friend. This morning I did a solid hour of yoga to make up for my excesses last night. Food, drink, and… Jean-Sven. He behaved himself

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Day 4: Letter to a friend

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Day 4: Letter to a friend. The light at this time of year stretches seductively far into the evening—at 9:30 or 10, a honeyed lucence falls on everything

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Day 3: Letter to a friend

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Day 3: Letter to a friend I hope you're receiving these notes, and they provoke a smile. Lord knows you seemed dour enough in our last few conversations

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Sexy

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Sexy. Some people have given me grief because I don't like 50 Shades of Silliness.

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