13 January 2025

Best of TTaT

2005:

  • The Dive at Machu Picchu

  • Phoenix Rising

  • What Not to Tell Me

  • One Year Ago

  • A Prelude to Bewitched

  • Question Mark, Jerk

  • Hamlet was my undoing: Part I

  • The Prom: Take Two (part 1)

  • Restraint

  • Goblets of Beer

  • Three Breaks

  • Tidbit

  • Beauty Parlor Nostalgia

  • Higher Altitude


    • 2006:

  • The Doctor is In

  • Either I've still got it, or I should be insulted

  • Night aerobics

  • The unconscious lie

  • Why wasn't it me?

  • Life at 16: The License Test

  • Little Creatures

  • Tacos and the bear

  • Good Friday Meets the Twilight Zone

  • PRSD

  • Blue gloves

  • I know that ass

  • The Screws of The Man

  • Heights, old and new

  • People are strange, myself included

  • I'm dreaming of a...


    • 2007:

  • Formalwear Claire

  • Pollocks in Nature

  • In the ground

  • Clash of the Foreign Tongues

  • Flashback: An Evening's Soiree Cycle

  • A follow-up of sorts

  • Talking 'bout the car wash

  • Trees fight back

  • Leaf density II

  • Let The Pictures Do The Talking: A Road Trip

  • When a canvas presents itself...

  • Behind the Harry Potter lines: redux

  • Not always the best skill

  • Defining References

  • Inadvisable, certainly

  • Clear sky at last

  • Ruins where I can get them

  • Only so much patience

  • retrovlog one: A Taste of the Jam

  • Remainders, 1 and 2

  • Once upon a time in San Francisco

  • Snowprints


    • 2008:

  • Thirty Year Old Jock-Thug

  • Claire's Bears

  • Fuzzy plant life

  • Additional tulips

  • Random Scan Sunday 1

  • Juicy Fruit: the survivalist's gum

  • Comic Book Guy's back room

  • Rhubarb!

  • To Be King Again

  • Humid!

  • Hibiscus

  • Cruise Night, round 1

  • Cruise Night, round 2

  • In motion

  • Art + Nature

  • Nap time

  • Autumn

  • Horizontal or vertical?

  • Milkweed

  • Fleeting

  • All but one


    • 2009:

  • Winter waters

  • Interrupted sky

  • Splitting headache

  • Almost time...

  • Near bust

  • Also this time of year

  • Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence

  • Unintentional odds

  • I'll take a bear in my Easter basket any day.

  • The moment I've been waiting for

  • 20 self portraits from 1996, day 2

  • 20 self portraits from 1996, day 3

  • 20 self portraits from 1996, day 13

  • Making it official: coming out to my family

  • Haiku: Irony

  • It's short for Rococo. Obviously.

  • The unbuttoned twin, for Vahid

  • Before dinner...

  • After dinner...

  • Claire's Sublime Smoothies

  • Gettin' My Groove On... (vol. iv)

  • Gettin' My Groove On... (vol. xii)


    • 2010:

    Winter water drops

    Sketchbook, page 11

    BearWatch '10

    Sketchbook, page 13

    Final winter exhibits

    Pick me up flowers

    Light It Up, vol. 1

    5 years of TTaT!

    Sketchbook, page 17 + bonus sketch

    G BIV flora

    Gettin' My Groove On... (vol. xv)

    Interrupted Golf: j'accuse le printemps!

    Sketchbook, page 25

    Airstrip

    Sketchbook, page 29

    It's OK to Zag.

    4-H

    Lakeside Splash

    Trillium and self-portrait

    Favorite Semi Blurs

    Sketchbook, page 47: birthday edition

    Translucent Trillium

    Vinyl meets pollen

    Observations in my parents' kitchen

    Say "ah"

    Sketchbook, page 58: Self-portrait

    If you celebrate...


    2011:

    Icicle Branches

    Biggest Bear Yet

    Flame whoosh

    I am a relaxation ninja.

    Poppy profile

    Bona fide tower

    Would you like cheese on that?

    The Power of Water, part 2

    And then there was Wind...

    Splotchy autumn colors

    Wait!


    2012:

    Life of Art 2011: the year in review

    Like a Ninja

    Where Everybody Knows Your Name...

    Temporal Transportation

    The Pursuit of Moonrise

    Are you ready to Jummmbbbllleee?

    Note to self: vol. XVIII

    Inner Badass

    Super Moon

    Unexpected


    2013:

    Life of Art 2012: the year in review

    Blue Skies

    Fleeting Diner Love

    Fractional Storytelling #1

    Fractional Storytelling #9

    Fractional Storytelling #12

    Fractional Storytelling #14

    Longest haircut ever, part 1

    Longest haircut ever, part 2

    A Decade of Movies and Outings

    Out, damned spot!

    X-Ray Vision

    A Glimpse of Summer

    Flash, Crash, Rumble, Flash

    Window A/C Tips

    Left to my own devices...

    Autumn

    The Apex of Sociability


    2014:

    Life of Art 2013: the year in review

    On Dinner and Dying

    Favorite Fortune Ever

    Happy Pride!

    Rosco, I think his name's Rosco

    Evening Stride

    Evening Snack

    Random Act

    Japanese Painted Ferns

    Nature's Javelin

    Keep Your Head In The Game

    Canopy Roads

    Christmas Eve


    2015:

    Life of Art 2014: the year in review

    Best Part of Winter

    Things That Go Thump In The Night

    Winter's Work

    My First Haircut

    I'm like a little chipmunk

    Spring sighting?

    10 Years of TTaT!

    Triumphant Anxiety

    Tiny Sheep!

    Dusk Sighting

    Perseids

    Great Dane

    You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)

    Enthusiastic

    Home-grown Carrot Round-up

    Eye-catching Mid-autumn Sighting

    Unintentionally Perfect

    Thanksgiving Haiku VII


    2016:

    Klutzy Coordination

    Inverted Linguistics

    BearWatch is Go!

    19 Polar Bears

    Trigger Happy Startle Reflex

    Eleven

    Interrupted Art

    The Next Twilight Bear

    Sheep in Disguise

    How am I not myself?

    Tree Cutters' Haiku

    Why you should watch Wynonna Earp plus bits of real life

    A Recent Lottery Exchange

    Inspired by Wynonna Earp to Try Something New

    The Seen, The Heard, and The Unseen: a tale of Perseids

    A Recent Basement Discovery

    Rosco, officially

    Sights from a day

    Draw What's In Your Bag

    Blind Contour Self Portrait

    One of my happiest days this year

    Bacon Mysteries

    Today's Winter Sightings


    2017:

    Snow Oddity

    Snow Falling

    Winter Roof Ice

    Introvert Meets Extrovert

    Extrovert continued

    Climbing

    Note to Self, vol. XXVI

    Things In Common

    A Low Growl

    Dinner conversation snippet

    Making Mölkky History

    Red Lion Amaryllis

    On Voicelessness

    Subconscious Earping

    Finding Cimmerian Darkness and Stygian Gloom, or How I Spent a Beautiful Summer Day

    Tales of the Black Badge

    Adventures in Shaving

    Winter Walk


    2018:

    You'll Never Guess

    An Olympic Conversation

    To be fair...

    Spring Sightings

    A photograph for its own sake

    Happy Halloween!

    In the Category of Odd


    2019:

    Furries

    Time Warp

    7:38

    Walkabout

    Fortunes

    Today's Sighting

    Barbecue Themes

    Alternative Covers

    Today's Sightings

    Summer Sounds

    Note to Self, vol. XXIX


    2020:

    Bundt v. Tube

    Old Paperwork

    Daffodil Buds

    Spring Snow

    Something big and black

    Today's Many Sightings

    Signs

    The Sound of Music

    Today's Sightings (and Hearing)

    Featured What A Year Holiday Card on Sale!

    Moondrop Grapes

    Insomnia Adventures


    2021:

    Hope

    Light

    Dinner at the Lake

    Speculation

    Neighborly

    Utility Pole

    How to Recognize You Have Shingles (Anecdotal)

    A Critical Thing to Know About Shingles

    Snap

    New (to me) Word


    2022:

    Caller ID

    Tarts

    Captain America

    Handwritten Wordle Notes From Games Past


    2023:

    Note to Self, vol. XXXII


    2024:

    A Theme for 2024

    Today's Sighting

    He Exists


    One year ago at TTaT: Wool
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    21 August 2024

    Freedom

    I value the freedom to make my own choices for my life, so I'm voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz because they will protect, restore, & expand my rights instead of stripping more away. 

    Let's do all we can to get them elected!

    https://kamalaharris.com/

     

    Make sure you, your friends, and family are registered to vote and have a plan to vote early, by mail, or in person on November 5, 2024:

    https://iwillvote.com/


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    28 July 2024

    Signal Boost

    This is an excellent article by Elie Mystal and I highly recommend you give it a read! Beware the People Who Claim “America Isn’t Ready for a Black Woman President”
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    04 April 2024

    XIX, diciannove, 19, dix-neuf, nineteen!

    Happy 19th blogiversary, TTaT!

    Looking back through 19 years of writing, drawing, and photography, I've chosen one post (or occasionally two) from each year from my Best of TTaT list (you can also find it in the header under Highlights).

    So... of 2862 published posts (including this one), these are currently my favorites:

    Nineteen years of Taller Than Average Tales, ultra-condensed

    2005: 
    One Year Ago

    2006: 
    Tacos and the bear

    2007: 
    Formalwear Claire

    2008: 
    To Be King Again

    2009: 
    20 self portraits from 1996, day 2 and Haiku: Irony

    2010:
    Gettin' My Groove On... (vol. xv) and Light It Up, vol. 1

    2011:
    Biggest Bear Yet

    2012:
    Temporal Transportation

    2013:
    Fleeting Diner Love

    2014:
    Evening Stride

    2015:
    Best Part of Winter

    2016:
    Sheep in Disguise

    2017: 
    Snow Falling and On Voicelessness

    2018:
    Spring Sightings and In the Category of Odd

    2019:
    Furries

    2020:
    Something big and black

    2021:
    Light

    2022:
    Captain America

    2023:
    Note to Self, vol. XXXII

    2024 (so far):
    He Exists

    Thanks to everyone who has read and commented over the years!

    10 years ago on TTaT: Nove!

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    30 March 2024

    He Exists

     While waiting for an appointment, I heard a man check in.

    He said his name and then spelled it.

    Moriarty.

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    20 March 2024

    Today's Sighting

    The curtains were closed across from me at dinner to help keep the heat in. Towards the end of dinner, I looked through to the living room where the curtains to the sliding glass doors were still open. 

    "Wow, that's a lot," I said upon seeing everything covered with snow outside. There had been none when I started eating. 

    Just an inch plus so far really but enough to fully coat the ground and line the tree branches with more still falling.

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    01 January 2024

    A Theme for 2024

    It's been several years since I chose a word or theme to guide me during the year, but over a week ago a word just came to me.

    It was very early Christmas Eve technically, between 4 and 5 AM, still a whole day away from Santa making his run. Waking up after a few hours sleep is alas typical for me and often without cause. I'll get up a for a while, pee, do some low key stretches, and then try to go back to sleep.

    In bed a second time, my mind wandered and settled on a word, a theme for 2024. I hadn't even been considering choosing one so I'm not sure what triggered it. Nonetheless I liked it and have already been keeping it in mind.

    VARIETY.

    Mainly I was thinking of changing up my workouts some if only in small ways for now. Add this, delete that. Do things a little differently.

    We'll see where it takes me.

    Do you have a theme or motto for 2024? If so, feel free to share it in the comments.

     

    10 years ago on TTaT: Life of Art 2013: the year in review

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