Art in Recovery
I am a survivor of abuse and parental alcoholism. Recovery and my artistic journey coincide and interdependent. When I am thinking of art in these terms, I include all forms, Writing, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, etc.
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Still Struggling
I’m planning to go to my 50-year high school reunion. The reunion committee asked for notable facts from those days. My biggest claim to fame in high school was a detailed model of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theater which I made with two friends (I contributed 60%) in our sophomore year. The model is still used Continue reading
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Book Three
I’m almost there. Book Three should be out in a week to ten days, eBook first, then paperback in August. It’s been a long haul. My blog title page has a preview of the book cover along with the first two. Then, on to the next project. Continue reading
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Old Friends
I had kids soon after I was married. Between work and raising kids I lost focus on other stuff like staying in touch with friends. My parents needed a lot of care too, which compounded my withdraw from parts of my life. Now, the kids are grown. The bounds I had with many friends remained Continue reading
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Reedsy
The second edition of my first book is live on Reedsy. If anyone has read it and would like to leave an upvote, here is the link: Escape From Desolation, Book One: Inclusion, Second Edition by Rob Glahe – Reviewed by Brittney Banning | Reedsy Discovery. Continue reading
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Bunker
As a writer, I need a special place to do my work, to get me in the right frame of mind. I once had a desk in a dark corner in my bedroom and I never got comfortable. When my son moved out, I turned his bedroom into my office, but I’m still not quite Continue reading
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Little Connections
I have a strange cartoon. It’s tiny and rests in a frame, barely 2×3, on a shelf in my office. It’s something my father gave me. It’s a man in a trench coat, holding a small fan and standing outside a crematorium. He has a sign the says “Ashes Scattered.” It’s a weird little thing Continue reading
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Cave Man
My father was a cave man. He struggled to find work that satisfied him. When he was about forty, he gave up and seldom left his house for the next forty years. Alcohol helped him in his hermitage. His experience became a cloud that shadowed my work life, adding to a paranoia that I would Continue reading
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Books
When I put my first book out, I didn’t know what to expect. I was exclusively focused on getting it into print. I didn’t put any thought into the next step. It was one of the most rewarding and exciting things to see my work in print form, as a book I could hold in Continue reading
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Second Edition
I’ve been working on a second edition on Book One of my Escape From Desolation series. The manuscript is with the publisher and I hope to have it out by the end of June. The first edition had so many errors, that I eventually became embarrassed to promote it. It was hard at first to Continue reading
About Me
Indie author and self taught artist, creating for over fifty years, also a former corporate lawyer and systems manager … and other assorted vocations. Writing is my passion. I just released my first science fiction novel, Escape From Desolation, eBook and paperback. More information at my author page: http://escapefromdesolation.com
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