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  • Make It A Good Day

    Maybe it is just because it is summer and we have more hours of daylight, but I always enjoy doing little things to make the day more enjoyable which makes the week more enjoyable.  Little things outside of the normal routine that make the day feel more like a holiday….

  • ISS Story

    Last week I talked about how sharing little snippets of a story through illustrations is a method of story telling that I am drawn to. I am not the crowd-talking type, who can talk to large groups and have all the attention on me for the duration of a story….

  • Comparisons

    I saw a little blurb on social media last week (I forget where) about not letting the internet fool you – and here is what stuck out: “no one is posting failures.”  Seems obvious enough.  Of course people aren’t posting failures.  Posts we share are curated to show the positive…

  • Routine

    It has been a little break from routine the last couple of weeks, which is going to continue at least until the end of the weekend. Not so much a change in my day to day, as I am still working, but we had a hockey tournament in Vancouver, which…

  • Personal

    While packing for our weekend away last weekend, going to our younger son’s hockey tournament, I was working out how much art stuff to bring and which sketchbooks. It has happened before, but I was again realizing how personal everything is.  I don’t like anyone to see my sketchbooks or…