M and I got the sweetest thank you card in the mail yesterday, and inside it was a gift certificate to Left Bank Books. A few minutes after I opened it, my mom and I were talking about the latest picture book illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, The Day the Crayons Quit. You can probably see…
Month: July 2013
sketches underfoot
This is not my first stress fracture. My first fracture happened sometime during the fall of 1996, although it would be several more weeks before anyone used the words osso rotto with me. The pain was intermittent at first, and it only made me cry once. Once just happened to be at night, at the…
z time
The work on the dining room has stalled a bit with the weekends full of birthdays and travel. Last night I thought I’d get back into the model a bit and work on a few ideas we’ve had for that room, but it was late and I get easily distracted when it’s late. My (real)…