
My Invisible Playmate
Invisible playmates are just a part of your child’s imagination or are they?

Invisible playmates are just a part of your child’s imagination or are they?
This is the second article in a series on serial killers. How does a killer become a killer? Once upon a time, they were born, held, named, taken pictures of. What kind of childhood helps to produce serial killers? In knowing this, perhaps these conditions could be avoided…
I’m not suggesting that what I have written applies to the entire world, but it should have a few similar points for someone out there. This is just a general view of bullying, from the bottom to king of the hill.
The career of contemporary artist Robert Melee’s revisit to his past. Having grown up fatherless, under the roof of his alcoholic mother, his polemic work often feature his mother, disheveled, inebriated, once even on display atop a stage at one of his show openings. Robert Melee’s work is dark, but insightful, and his newer works exhibit a reflective new quietness to them. However, this essay focuses, like Melee’s work, on his past.
On how I was introduced to fabric and recycling in one go! How a well-dressed fortunate War baby learned to be generous and organized, all at once!
About how I lost an old teddy bear and gained a new one, and how making him a quilt helped to make me feel better when I was ill.