Four weeks off from school! Hurrah!! Hurrah! I had so many great projects to work on like making a book for you folks, completing my Kickstarter promises, finishing the book I started this summer... hanging out with my kids (hadn't seen my college kid in ages!), and maybe even... GASP... getting some sleep....

I'm sick in bed and just realizing two weeks have flown by since I got out of school for break. Whoosh! Just before Christmas, I got to participate in a Holiday Celebration at my daughter's elementary school. It was my kid's idea that I should volunteer to lead an...

Whoa! It's done! One of four semesters. Finished. Sigh. Our last class, instead of Visiting Artists, was a Reading Party. What a great way to end the semester and then head off to break. There were tons of yummy cakes and cookies, including some decorate your own cookies. My fireman had dropped off...

We had semester reviews in Life Drawing class on Thursday. I pinned up 10 sets of figure drawings and it was interesting to see the work on the wall. Usually, I see it close up as I'm working, then flip to the next page. Rinse and repeat. I took some photos of the...

It is incredibly satisfying to see a stack of your books - all bound and trimmed. So lovely! Here's a peek inside... the Table of Contents - we used the shadows of the main characters... Here's the first page of my story, "Little Devil." We each chose a devil-related...

Yesterday, there was a big yellow envelope from my lawyer in the mailbox when I got back to the apartment. I have learned not to look to that form of communication as life-affirming. Today, as I came out of class - it was pitch black and freezing cold. Part of me was hoping my Fireman...