I should be writing.
Once upon a time there was a shed. It was illegally built under the power lines. It almost tripped up our purchase of our home. Lawyers. We said we’d take it down. We were going to take it down last summer when we discovered that a poison ivy tree was growing inside of it. Yes,…
Well, today was absolutely terrible. We had to euthanize our dog, Molly. Her decline was precipitous: she started retaining fluid, stopped eating, and had trouble breathing. The vet figured it was cancer or heart failure. Expensive tests and treatments were not going to reverse the outcome. It’s been hard to see her suffer these past few…
Yesterday I attended Gene Luen Yang’s opening lecture at the Festival of Faith and Writing. The title was, Is Art Selfish? Great question. Yang presented many anecdotes from his own life, illustrating how he has struggled with this question. He began writing comics in fifth grade, and he would isolate himself from others during lunch periods to…
Today I had to do a bunch of work for my real job: teaching. I created five lesson plans and made videos for them. This week I’ll post them to my teacher website and mass learning will occur. I’m super organized at work this year, because I know that I have exactly NO TIME for…
Fiona woke up this morning and immediately carried two Knuffle Bunny books into our room. She hopped into our bed and read them aloud to us. She mentioned that she really liked how Mo Willems drew cartoons on top of real photographs of his neighborhood. Then she decided that she wanted to do the same thing…
