Faster.
As a child, my favorite animal was a tie between a mountain lion and a cheetah. I loved the silky smooth caramel color of a mountain lion, but a cheetah… a cheetah could go fast. I’ve written before about my love of going fast. When I had a car, I tended to be an aggressive [...]
Pirouette.
It is a delicate dance, consciousness. For marking time we have seasons, the feeling of hot or cold on our skin and the proud, tall masts of trees, who signal by sprouting, blossoming and shedding over and over again, a loop repeated under a sea of cloud and sky, churning its own ceaseless rhythm, a [...]
Did you know…
Dark. Chocolate. Peanut. M&Ms. I’d had them at my in-laws’ over the holidays and then promptly forgot they existed. My mother in-law is one of those amazing people who has sweets tucked in little containers all over the house. It’s a glorious thing and I always look forward to it. But by the time I’m [...]
The Sirens
Memory is my Siren song blink. I can’t remember very much from my early childhood. Images flash in my mind and I’m hesitant to claim them as memories, unsure whether or not they’re really mine or sponged up from novels, movies or old photobooks. blink. Standing in knee deep swishy grass, an endless sea of [...]
Who put the cat in a bag anyway?
Now that the cat’s out of the bag, I can post this illustrated portrait. Which is good, really, since it’s one of my favorite recent projects. Oh, and thanks to Sarah for instigating such madness. xo, Sam
Birds of a feather…
The finches of Heatherington Hollow had dispensed with nests and taken to sleeping in slings, or hammocks, as they are commonly known to people. It was simply more practical. It may be hard for you to imagine, if you have never been a bird, but suffice it to say that waking up with someone else’s [...]
to tell the truth…
it was an unsettling sensation the earthquaking realization that the monsters of my youth were really puppets put to use by adults who thought to tell the truth with a thousand lies and airtight alibis. in the end, perhaps, they are more confused and had much more to lose than i. ———————————— lately i’ve been [...]
Special Edition Silly Faces
Just loaded a whole heap of new Silly Faces into the shop, including a few special edition Type Jars and larger jars. The one in the photo above is for the Gulf Relief Network and half the profits of the sale will go directly to clean up efforts in the gulf coast region. I hope [...]
shingles!
You don’t want them. No, no, no! When I was a little girl, my Oma got shingles and I remember my mom saying “shingles” and this is exactly what I imagined. It seemed awful then, and still does now. Speaking of curiously-named ailments: I have no idea what caused them, but I had them on [...]
courage by surprise
alternate title: coming full circle: thoughts of a high school debate team drop-out. In high school, my family life was pretty out of hand. The bits I care to mention publicly would include the fact that my mom suffered from a health condition which involved 6 surgeries and multiple trips into downtown Houston over the [...]
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