“My hand hurts looking at this!” said Mike Curato, author and illustrator of The Little Elliot series. Random House Art Director April Ward and he had just put an image on screen from a Portland area artist and I had to agree. The amount of detail in that artwork with trees, foxes, and geese was… Read more
lessons
I’ve learned priceless lessons from the transformation of a worship space into a gigantic place for trash that becomes treasures. Resist the ridiculous.We all have mountains of things like odd plastic mittens and pots that might be warmers but are not. The next time I see full price boot mitts for my Halloween costume, I will picture the teetering pile… Read more
This week I learned a few things. Some I suspected and some I did not. 1. It helps to have many people out there trying to do the same thing. Writers have probably always formed groups and I suppose this is because writing is so lonely that we all want to know someone else is… Read more