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Ignorance is Bliss
How lucky I am that no one ever talked me out of pursuing a career in the arts. This morning I was sitting in my favorite Roman coffee bar watching the usual suspects pop in with hearty "buongiornos" to the barista Alessandro, who knows everyone's name as well as...
A Broad Abroad: Being Fruitful in Foreign Lands
Some people visit foreign countries. I give birth in them. Here’s a sneak peek at some work in progress I am doing for A Broad Abroad Graphic Anthology.
Welcome to My Hermit Kingdom
I admit it. I am smug. I am smug because for one semester anyway, I am on sabbatical and so far it is everything I hoped it would be and more. Usually I align myself with the struggling underdog masses, and yet at this moment I find myself in the privileged .1% of...
Get Fat. Sleep In. Change Nothing.
I'm kidding! I'm kidding! I just sat down after finally getting a break from six hours of running around after my boys (one who has been up since 4:47AM this morning) and felt like I needed to make a blog post. It's been ages since I've written, and all I've seen...
Instant Mood Boost: A Facebook Thought Gift Experiment
Have you ever logged into one of your your social media accounts and wished you could find just the right words to cheer up an entire hoard of people all over the world across time and space with just a few choice key strokes? There's plenty of negativity out there...
Help! I’ve Got the LOOK
This is a post for Flashback Friday from November 23, 2007. While I feel somewhat bad that my last two posts have essentially been re-posts, it actually means I'm doing lots of animation now instead of writing which is very good for my upcoming film, This Too...
Too Much is Enough
Today one of the most shared items on BBC News is an article titled, Are Children Given Too Many Toys? Without any hesitation I would have to say... YES! That's my answer anyway. This is a re-post of an article I wrote for Aura's House (my grassroots charitable...
Mama’s Sketchbook
Some time maybe about a month ago my (then) three year-old son Lukas decided that he no longer could sleep in his bed at night unless he had one crucial item in his grasp. A teddy bear? A nightlight? Nope. It's got to be "Mama's Sketchbook." He also likes to call it...
Little Utopia
Every now and then I am walking down the street, caught up in my own head thinking about groceries or diapers or a student complaint about receiving a B+ and then suddenly I am hit over the head with a jarring thought. "Holy Sh*t! I live in Rome, Italy. Rome,...
Sorry. I Can’t.
So there we were, having lunch outside Cafe Vert today in the beautiful neighborhood of Monteverde Vecchio on Via Barilli in Rome, Italy. We are two of the most charitable, socially conscious, some would even say enlightened people in the whole city. Heck, let's go...