Jenni Simmons is the Editor of the <a href="http://www.arthouseamerica.com/blog">Art House America Blog</a>, and a creative nonfiction writer. Her writing has appeared in Comment Magazine and Proximit
I live for good snail mail days. I either rush out to the mailbox when I hear
the mail truck scoot away, or bat my eyelashes and lazily ask of my husband
(headed
[http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RyanAdams06.jpg]Ryan Adams in concert
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I’m pretty sure my first concert was Stryper
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Last June, I had the pleasure of attending the Trinity Arts Conference
[http://www.trinityartsconference.com/] in Dallas, TX, which was inspiring on
every artistic level. One night, I settled into a chair
> “If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our
neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like
artists, we must