Max and Nell have been in Australia since Wednesday and their plan is to work and travel around the land of Oz over the course of the coming year. They’ve set up a blog to chronicle their adventures down under and I hope you’ll have a chance to check it out from time to time. [...]

I had some visitors in town recently – Ali, Max and Kelsi – and have therefore been unable to knit much. I promise some progress shots real soon. I thank you for your patience.

I had the distinct honor of watching my son and his girlfriend, Nell, graduate from Indiana University yesterday. What a thrill! The speaker was Quincy Jones who received his 14th honorary doctorate degree. The venue was immense as you can see here. Today I was pampered and spoiled for Mother’s Day, even being treated to [...]

I’ve been completely obsessed with hats recently churning them out at the rate of one every few days. This is my kind of project requiring absolutely no sewing except for weaving in the ends. Fantastic! So quick and easy but I have to work on not making them quite so BIG! Max is modeling the [...]

I’ve got family in town this week for the holiday, namely Max and Nell (pictured above at the Caffe Trieste in North Beach), and we’ve been running around the SF Bay Area taking in the sites. Today we were at the California Academy of Sciences (along with Alice and Liz) which I haven’t seen since [...]

So much so that yesterday I downloaded Wake Up by Arcade Fire and I’ve been listening to it non-stop since then. [101609: I just discovered a blog entitled Terrible Yellow Eyes which is dedicated to works, mainly illustration, inspired by Where the Wild Things Are. Pretty cool.]

In honor of Max, my number one son and number one reader, on the occasion of his TWENTY FIRST birthday today, July 6, 2009,  I have compiled a little slide show of photographic highlights from the past five years or so. This is angry young Max – still one of my favorite photos. Long haired [...]

It’s been a few weeks but I return with the regular Wednesday Doodle feature and it’s another one of Max’s doodles from years ago. Oh the twisted imagination of the male adolescent. Before I forget, I have a few links I wanted to share with you. The Ministry of Cats turned me on to the [...]

I know that sounds like a cliché but in many ways it feels like the past 18 years have gone by in a nano-second. Here are my two children, Alice and Max, in 1991, when we first moved to Oregon. Alice was only about six months old in this photo. Seems like yesterday. *sigh* If [...]

Remember when the only way to get through a day of High School was to draw?