My birthday came in the midst of chaos. We're surrounded by boxes, and certainly not settled, whatever that means, but we took the time...

This was going to be the weekend we moved. It didn't happen. Kate is still sick, I've been sick, and now Doug's got it. We al...

The question: How old is Doug today? Kate has been sick. She was feverish on Sunday, threw up twice on Monday, and has in general been nee...

(I can't help it, this makes me laugh.) One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the...

I've been trying to come up with a Chinese-papercut style pig. I like this little guy.

I found a cafepress shop recently where somebody has some adoption-themed shirts with words like mother, grandmother, etc, in different lang...

It's that time of year again--the time when colleges start posting their job openings. Doug's been after that elusive full-time...

Kate has loved books for a long time. She's always coming up to me with a book and saying "Read this! Read this!" (It was a...

I used that phrase in a kit recently, and I wasn't sure if it was "cold wind" or "North wind." I did some googling...

Coming to you via my new graphics card. We are speedy! We got some more RAM for the computer a little while ago (bumped it up to a gig), b...

Yes, it's true--we have a two-year-old. We knew this was both inevitable and imminent, but it's still a bit hard to believe. For...

Here's Kate on the horse that Scott got her for Christmas. She loves it. It's bigger than she is. We have named the horse Bucky. ...

All the learning, doodling, and playing around finally coalesced into me, the graphics tablet, and Painter getting together to create a fin...

Yes, I've gone off the deep end--I'm in love with a brush stroke. I got Corel Painter IX.5 a few days ago. So far I've just be...

The big windstorm swept through on Thursday. It was not entirely unexpected. "Big storm coming!" people said. "Be prepare...

We just got notice that our apartments are going to be sold as condos, and we have 90 days to vacate. We are not happy. We've just bar...

AmyB said she wanted a copy of my giraffe doodle for her son, so I said I'd make her a better one. I used a reference photo for this on...

I'm on a roll tonight! I just discovered the "tapered gouache" brush. What a gorgeous line!

Theresa said I should draw something with my tablet and post it, so here are a couple of doodles. I've been playing around with Corel P...