by Brian Panowich | Scattered and Covered
By Brian Panowich I’m no Shakespeare. Not even close. I’m no Pablo Neruda or Emily Brontë, or even Nicholas Sparks for that matter. I’m not even Andrew Lincoln’s beloved character, Mark, from the iconic film Love Actually, with his scene-stealing posterboard signs...
by Brian Panowich | Scattered and Covered
By Brian Panowich I worry about the artist. Maybe because I am one, but mainly because art in all its forms has taken a back seat lately to pain, politics and world-wide strife. The painters who have been reduced to showing their work online as opposed to gallery...
by Brian Panowich | Scattered and Covered
By Brian Panowich The year 2020. It has definitely been one for the books. I cannot remember another more tumultuous time in my life, in the lives of my family and friends, or possibly in the world itself. I’ve seen and experienced the entire gamut of emotion and have...
by Brian Panowich | Scattered and Covered
By Brian Panowich | Illustration by Michael Rushbrook So, I did a thing. As of Jan. 1, 2020, I signed off of social media. I closed up shop on Facebook, signed out of Twitter and Instagram, and even let go of my long-standing account on Pinterest. Now, I...
by Brian Panowich | Scattered and Covered
By Brian Panowich I can still remember the phone call I received from my oldest and dearest friend, David Kernaghan, to tell me about his symptoms. I’d gotten used to getting phone calls from David about all his various injuries throughout the years. He’d always been...
by Brian Panowich | Scattered and Covered
By Brian Panowich Throughout my tenure as the columnist for “Scattered & Covered” here at Augusta Magazine, I have never used this wonderful platform they gave me for any kind of political commentary or to forward any sort of slanted hidden agenda — either to the...