I don’t ever really think about my archives because once I get something off my chest I’m usually done with it. But the other day I was thinking about the post I wrote when my son told me...
Jack’s mom died this week. We hadn’t seen her for a while but we talked to her all the time — she loved the phone, loved to talk, she would gladly spend hours working over any...
PART 1 It turns out that when I try to rush through my drawings, they suck. I end up throwing out more paper and wasting more time — but when I sit back, take an hour, and really think about...
About a month ago I was all, “Oh, shit, spring break’s coming, what should we do?” “Nothing,” was my first thought, but then I pictured Jackson pale and shaking from...
I have been in a horrendous mood! So that’s been hilariously fun! I’m also 1,000 years behind on drawings, so let’s take a look at my terrible output for March. Four drawings. FOUR....
Several days a week we carpool to Jackson’s school with another family, and this morning one of the girls we drive with gave me the two boxes of Girl Scout cookies I’d ordered from her...
I have an on-again off-again relationship with astrology. The astrology app on my iGoogle home page is so weirdly on-point sometimes that I am often happy to think that Venus, Saturn, and the bones...
We have a new microwave oven, after having spent the last year without one. Heating our tea water in a kettle on the stove like savages. Yesterday afternoon Jack walked in on me heating soup for...
For some reason I could not handle all the nice words the Internet funneled my way at birthday time, so I turned off my computer and walked away. I thought my self-esteem issues had been mostly...
My birthday is later this week and I’m having fun imaging that I am still just half-way through my life, that I have a whole other 49 years of mature adulthood in which I do not have to waste...