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Dear Darby: Getting Up
Dear Darby, If you could read this today, I would have you know ... that I am proud of you for getting out of bed. Each time you get out...

Laurie A Pearsall
Dec 2, 20244 min read


Dear Darby: Sunday morning
Blessed morn indeed. Yesterday is thankfully where I left it. I'm no-shit truly grateful for this time, this opportunity - and I can't...

Laurie A Pearsall
Mar 31, 20241 min read


The Esoteric: How art is born
This entry marks the birth of a new artwork, a new wig in a delicate set of sculptures I first exhibited a year ago. It came to me almost...

Laurie A Pearsall
Feb 28, 20236 min read


A fond farewell to the Brooklyn Sketchbook Project
The BSP is closing its doors after nearly 20 years of this wonderful endeavor, which was originally housed in the non-profit Brooklyn Art...

Laurie A Pearsall
Feb 26, 20234 min read


If I do nothing else today, I promise to ...
Dear reader, it's been nearly one and a half years since my last blog post. Confession: I have been hoarding words all this time. And...

Laurie A Pearsall
Feb 4, 20232 min read


Scar Story: The Gate
They told me to stay away because the building was condemned, but I continued to snoop around the abandoned home. The place was run down...

Laurie A Pearsall
Aug 12, 202111 min read


Mixed Tape - Music Notes Part III
If I am quiet enough they will let me hang out here for hours. The downstairs of the Addition is the new Boys' Room. It's like a...

Laurie A Pearsall
Aug 1, 202110 min read


Finches in the Stovepipe
It was a glorious Spring day in New England and I was making small talk. "This isn’t blue sky! This is nothing!" burst my neighbor from...

Laurie A Pearsall
May 26, 202112 min read


Unleaving
"Gee, I think I like yours better!" The childish student in me still warms to see the comment written in my creative writing teacher's...

Laurie A Pearsall
May 4, 20213 min read


Ouroboros - Music Notes Part II
I continue listening to old tunes that comprised my childhood soundtrack. I was lucky to have my own bedroom and be handed down a little...

Laurie A Pearsall
Apr 29, 202110 min read


Music Notes Part I
The covetous perusal of album cover art is something I miss in our move away from the physical delivery of music to us via vinyl or...

Laurie A Pearsall
Apr 12, 20216 min read


Aerial View Dining
'Love is ... a series of ups and downs.' Thus reads the front cover of a five by eight-inch note pad I have stored in a box of old...

Laurie A Pearsall
Apr 5, 20217 min read


Pen Nibs from Heaven
The days before and after my father's funeral in 2019, it was just my eldest brother, me, my daughter, and Mom staying in their house....

Laurie A Pearsall
Mar 28, 202111 min read


Jerry-Rigged
I haven't blogged in weeks and I feel sour with myself for missing my personal goal. I work well with structure and deadlines, it keeps...

Laurie A Pearsall
Mar 21, 20219 min read


Boots on the Ground
Anything can become ordinary. Moving through the small city of Palma de Mallorca these days, I see oodles of women and girls in boots...

Laurie A Pearsall
Feb 28, 20215 min read


A Beetle on its Back
During the final few months before becoming a member of the graduating class of 1988 of my New England high school, I had a string of...

Laurie A Pearsall
Feb 24, 202113 min read


Partner in Crime
It is only around the corner, but we are nervous just the same. I usually don’t involve him in my trash-picking, but I need the car and a...

Laurie A Pearsall
Feb 13, 20214 min read


Resident Preener
If you have seen monkeys preen and pick nits out of each other's fur, you will know that they sporadically look up at a jolt and dart...

Laurie A Pearsall
Feb 6, 20219 min read


Puberty Portrait
This past weekend I spotted a familiar object on my mother-in-law's bookshelf. The acrylic cube picture frame was just like one my mother...

Laurie A Pearsall
Jan 30, 20215 min read


Cadavre Exquis
Junior year of high school, the penultimate year of secondary education in North America is the time when you really start to catch the...

Laurie A Pearsall
Jan 24, 20214 min read
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