the horoscope:
So many outside-the-box ideas come to you today that it’s hard to decide which are important. Don’t think that you can do everything, for there are limitations to your time and energy. It’s better now to focus your creativity on one or two specific projects than hop back and forth from one thing to […]

wow. i just did a whirlwind run around the site fixing stuff. spent about 2 1/2 hours working on little tweaks, updating the doodle project page, adding links to the crusades page, adding chip kidd as one of my heroes on the about page and other assorted things that most folk won’t notice.
oh, and […]

i’ve got a bump in the road to overcome with my drawing.
i’m having trouble with accepting my own style. it’s not that i think i draw horribly. i’m slow and i definitely need a lot of work before i can feel any kind of confidence in it whatsoever, but i don’t think i suck. […]

the graphic novel that’s now a major motion picture. i’ve known of the two volumes (now reissued as one) of this story for years now, but never got around to reading it. i’m sorry to say that it took the movie to get my interest up enough to read it. frankly, i though it would […]

what a fun and easy read, with a couple of touching, heartfelt moments. life at the public library is a lot more complicated than what you think, apparently. of course i don’t expect that my local librarians have quite the same daily trials as the folks in this book (non-fiction, btw). but then they aren’t […]