I decided to draw every single bird in North America as my final graduate school project, and it taught me more than I thought possible.
Read MoreThis is one of the busiest times of the years. Here's a suggestion on how to manage it.
Read MoreEveryone wants to be liked. There is nothing unique about that, or really wrong with it, either. But I’m beginning to realize that when I come home from a short party more exhausted than I feel after a long run, it’s because I am spending a lot of my energy performing.
Read MoreIt can be alarmingly easy to forget how important it is to find a family.
Read MoreSome thoughts on what to do with that feeling that you need something more, something else; that something is going to satisfy an itch or a need or a hunger; but nothing ever does. It’s the thinking associated with, “I can’t stop doing this”; or, “Just one more, I swear.”
Read MoreThe trick actually has little to do with how you distribute your energy, and everything to do with how easily you can accept that you cannot do everything; and with how readily you can be gentle with yourself when it seems everyone else can. I
Read MoreOn spending quite a lot of time with quite a small number of artworks you wouldn't normally see.
Read MoreWe got a new cat.
Read MoreThe most perfect possible bird ushered out this dark year and let me let go into the next one.
Read MoreThe longest love story of my life, resurrected every Christmas Eve.
Read MoreEighth grade was the beginning of the rest of my life.
Read MoreJean Baptiste Lucido Johnson Hoar de Galvan: November 2015 - December 2016.
Read MoreOne of our cats collapsed extremely suddenly last night. Things are still up in the air.
Read MoreThree-step paintings.
Read MoreI truly believe that 4 a.m. is one of the best-kept secrets of the creative world.
Read MoreTwo paintings at the end of a semester thinking about birds.
Read MoreThere is this notion that you are supposed to do things perfectly the first time; a sense that mistakes are so terrible that they signal that the very task at hand has been a total bust.
Read MoreFinding the rhythm of “enough" and “try harder” has always been a difficult balance for me.
Read MoreAn overdue realization hit me: The day when I became Craft Girl Fantasy was never going to come. My precious stacks of scrapbooking paper weren’t doing anyone any favors in these forgotten drawers.
Read MoreThe small things you can do (make caramel! make sushi! fix bikes! fix pipes!) to make your life feel more interesting and valuable.
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