I'm enjoying taking a walk through Owen Swain's site, which includes both artwork and poetry. This self-portrait with super-foamy-toothpaste is particularly whimsical. Owen's doing a series of sketches as part of the Everyday Matters drawing challenge, which looks like a fun way to keep one's creative juices flowing. Now I want to buy a Moleskine for some reason. - DS
Dorian Speed is a writer, educator, and speaker. She will soon graduate from the University of St. Thomas with her MFA in Creative Writing. She contributed a chapter about the Scottish writer Muriel Spark to the collection Women of the Catholic Imagination: Twelve Inspired Novelists You Should Know, newly released by Word on Fire Votive. Dorian is currently working on her first novel, as well as a book comparing the authors Flannery O’Connor and Muriel Spark
