Rent it! Put the kids to bed and make some popcorn! What a great little film! Once will make you listen closely and slow down. It’s not for the short attention spanned folks…only for those who are able to stop and take it in. Street musician meets Czech dreamer and they make impossibly beautiful music. [...]

I received a gift subscription to Martha Stewart Living for Christmas and the April issue arrived yesterday. On page 94 is the absolute coolest idea that I’ve seen in a long time…the memory flip book that can be made from your home video. We have a few flip books with goofy little scenes, but [...]

It’s a magic miracle. I can hardly believe it when I wake up in the morning and I’m the only one awake! My inner clock has been trained by Nathan to wake up around 3am…I look at the clock and all is quiet and I go back to sleep! Nathan is sleeping through the night [...]

Robin hops in snow
Green plastic grass underfoot
Egg salad sandwich

We pretty much missed Easter and Good Friday this year due to illness. Everyone has their own personal box of kleenexes. The counter is lined with Motrin, Tamiflu, Pediacare, Benadryl, Amoxicilin and Tylenol… We just need spring, not calendar spring, but warm spring air and a good [...]

It’s official! I’ve developed my first recycled product! I’ve made about 20 of them so far and have given away a few samples to friends to put them to the test. The RE-bag! Yesterday I grocery shopped using these recycled bags made from T-shirts and a lady chased me down in the parking lot wanting [...]

In this business of design and illustration there is a lot of variety. No two days are the same. One day it’s a serious newsletter, the next I’m sketching very happy bugs. And my two “associates,” well, you can never predict what they will say or do either… My “assistant” Miika declared today, “I love [...]

2007 was the year of the patch for Miika, but her summer was not ruined by 6 hours of daily eye patching. We had lots of distractions. For a few weeks my neighborhood mom friends and I did “camp.” I was the book lady and read stories and the girls made books in the back [...]

I have a present for you… a click trip to Sommerville, MA. There’s a little shop there called Magpie. You’ll get your shopping fix for the day without having to get the kids dressed, snacks packed, find the hats, the coats, the special toy that goes everywhere…just click here! Oh, and you won’t have [...]

For years I’ve had a dream to be a shopkeeper. The shop has taken on many shapes and colors. But at the core, is the love of creative stuff and being with people. When Nathan was born, the shop dream took on another dimension…to somehow fund services for people with disabilities and to employ [...]

I’ve decided that when developmental milestones are achieved by kids with delays it is EXTRA special. Yes, I was always excited by Miika’s achievements. But there’s a much longer wait for Nathan to catch on. So, when he finally gets the hang of something that I’ve shown him 1,000 times, it’s VERY, VERY exciting!
This weekend [...]