The plot thickens!      This is part three of a true story drawn in five parts.  I illustrated it in 2000 about a high school adventure back in 1984. If you haven’t seen parts one and two, just go to the two most recent posts to follow it from the beginning.      Some of you were there, […]

      This is part two of a five-part (mostly true) story from 1984. If you want to see the story from the start, go to yesterday’s post for part one. (I’ll post the remaining three parts in the following posts.)       As I said, the story is true, and the characters are all actual participants […]

            If you were in Athens High School in 1984, there’s a chance you’ll  remember The Great Scavenger Hunt (or you might have even been one of the fifteen or so participants). I’ve changed the names of everyone involved (and made them all animals, too), but some of you will know who the characters […]

     In anticipation of some new projects, I brought out my colored pencils last night to practice with. This is supposed to be me in my drawing room (which also serves as a guest room)… (Maybe it’s the guest room that also serves as my drawing room – not sure.)      Below is another bit of […]

     This is one of  my early watercolor attempts: Summer1989, where Hibble, Pibble, and I camped in the Redwoods. We backpacked into the forest and lived by the river for several days, exploring the forest and the river without ever seeing another person. Wonderful!

     With an ice storm looming, this mood reflects, more or less, how I’m feeling tonight. (I think the original self portrait was an attempt to capture the frustration of writers’ block, or cartoonists’ block.) (Depression may have been an issue then, too.) Anyway, you get the idea.      By the way, today is the […]

     While waiting for a friend in Tony’s, I scribbled a few pictures with my left hand. I’m still giving my right hand a vacation from drawing because of the recent pain… So, here are a few more of my left-handed drawings that I’ve been attempting. Mostly, they are all a bunch of scribbles that […]

      This was the morning that J. and I caught the boat from Copper Harbor across Lake Superior (six hours!) to our summer destination, Isle Royale. This was in 1990, the summer that Hibble and Pibble moved out to Eugene, Oregon, and the summer before I moved to Seattle. I worked as a cook in […]

     Here’s another short excerpt from my book, Existential Fish (2011), in which Jen and her younger brother, Jimmy, happen to meet up at a high school keg party. The book is a collection of short stories involving the several teenagers. Some of the stories are only a few pages long, others longer, and some […]

Vegetables with rice for dinner tonight. Right hand swollen again, so everything left handed for  a week to heal. Watercolors help ease the pain.