Look Into Me, acrylic and oil crayon on canvas with original poetry, 48″x36″, 2001, Stuart Sheldon Life in three words. LEARN EARN RETURN...

photo by Lynn Kelley @WANA Commons Years ago, under the auspices of meeting women, someone gave me this sage advice which I believe...

Many scientists believe we have but one innate fear at birth – FEAR OF FALLING. Everything else is learned. Is there truth to the notion...

George Plimpton – 50 Years of Partying Like a Rockstar, acrylic & mixed media on cardboard, 16.5″ x 23″, 2003, Stuart Sheldon “WHAT DO...

Les Amours Enfantines, acrylic and antique book on paper, 7″x6″, 2004, Stuart Sheldon The 8-year-old daughter of a friend once paid me an...

“I arranged for Kai and me to fly over the Golden Gate Bridge in a seaplane. Can you believe how cool that’s gonna be!!” I told my wife...

The average American meal lasts SEVEN MINUTES !! We don’t dine. We shovel. And what little conversation does occur often emerges through...

Stop waiting to see who watches No one watches At least not for long Everyone’s far too busy Looking in mirrors of their own ~ image...

“A Sneeze Between the Knees. That is an orgasm!” My college sex ed teacher opened her very first lecture with that jewel. Best...

Stuart Sheldon, Mother’s Day, Acrylic, Chinese funeral paper on panel, 24″x24″, 2004 I got divorced a long time ago. The short story is...

photo by Jenny Kaczorowski from WANA Commons We just finished bottle number two. Took us nearly ten years. Each drop another meal,...

A fellow painter invited me last week to be one of four artists at a South Beach corporate event. Live painting feels a bit like being a...

The heavy-around-the-middle cop shut the front door behind himself, took a notepad from his shirt pocket and flipped it open. His gaze...

Stuart Sheldon, The Name On Everyone’s Lips, acrylic and collage on panel, 2003 “If you smile at me I will understand. That is something...

Stuart Sheldon, Don’t Hide Behind Words, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 24″x24″, 2004 I shot my brother with a BB gun. IN THE TESTICLES....

I’m a beach guy. Slept on one on every continent but Antarctica. Born and raised in the teeny weeny bikini culture of Miami, F-L-A....

I waited alone to be seated in a Thai restaurant on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. In front of me a beefy frat boy and his...

I currently live in a 2600 square foot home that I consider a mansion after five years on a 928 sf Sausalito houseboat. Mind you, I’ll...

It used to pain me to admit that I met my wife online. As if I was too pathetic to find someone in the real world. I needed algorithms....

When did you last receive a hand written letter? When did you last write one? Is it a lost art? My mother’s mother and father loved each...