Friday Sprichwort
I think this sentiment is better suited to a Monday than a Friday, but nevertheless, I’m dropping a German proverb on you all today. Loosely translated, it goes something like “what you can accomplish today, don’t put off for tomorrow…” There is an English equivalent, but I’m at a loss to remember it at the [...]
uppers, downers and other inducements to writing…
i keep thinking that another cup of coffee will unscramble my brain and help to make some sense of the tangled balls of yarn rolling about my skull. (if you are picturing giant tumble-weeds, then we’re on the same page.) but coffee didn’t work on monday. it didn’t work yesterday either and although i might [...]
The Bends…
Feeling discombobulated? Can’t seem to find which way is up? You may be suffering from the Bends. Previously considered to be merely a decompression sickness, new studies have shown that this condition can occur above sea level. If you are highly flexible (circus performer, contortionist) or double-jointed, you may be at a higher [...]
Some exciting news!
Friends! I bought a for-real art printer and it’s as big as a small suitcase! What does this mean? Well, I can now offer prints of the daily drawings series, the virtues and vices series and will take requests for prints of any blog illustrations. In the near future, I’ll be setting up a more [...]
older vs. wiser… (a very LONG post indeed!)
i used to think that aging was this natural, organic-type process whereby smooth skin and blonde ringlets gently blend into bespectacled, powdered wrinkles…. that naivete and innocence were slowly replaced with gentle wisdom and a knowing sort of smile. i imagined that age, or time, would remove all insecurity, fear and the comparison-disease. i turned [...]
The proof is in the pudding…
or, as this case would have it, in this year’s family portrait. If you didn’t think her outfit was that bad in the last picture, now it should be perfectly clear how much Margot really did stand out. Grinning and bearing it, Love, Sam
Margot knows what she likes…
Margot was an especially awkward girl, being only 12 years old and already nearly 6 feet tall. While her love for “creative” outfitting could be seen as endearing (and indeed was seen as such by her father and grandmother), her mother continually struggled in vain to convince her that the wearing of so much pink [...]
Inspiration
Poem by Amelia Earhart Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not Knows no release from little things: Knows not the livid loneliness of fear, Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. Nor can life grant us boon of living, compensate For [...]
Clowning around…
I’ve had this picture by my desk for at least two weeks, since a friend found it in a book I’d lent him. It’s the late 1980s and my eyes are feverish with the anticipation of buckets-full of candy. I still have a visceral memory of how the polka-dot bowtie smelled strongly of plastic inks [...]
Walls…
Magdalena was a fragile sort of girl, who was tossed about by the various and never-ending storms of life. (Hurricanes seemed to be the most treacherous). As a last resort, she’d begun to build up a wall around herself, which besides being quite sturdy and safe, had the unexpected consequence of trapping her in the [...]