I know better now — You can listen to the Soundcloud recording of this post here. I sometimes think of myself as a failed experiment. My parents hoped I’d be valedictorian of everything, but my college GPA was a dismal 3.2, and I’m convinced I only ended up in AP Calculus because of a clerical…

While packing for a weekend away in a new-to-me location, I left behind my sketchbook. I wanted to see how I’d do if I only had my agenda to draw in or take notes with. I use a Hobonichi Techo with Tomoe River paper, which holds up a little…

A minor disaster; a major revelation — My neighbors’ gigantic cedar tree had to be cut down after nearly uprooting itself onto their house during a windstorm last week. Last week’s Santa Anas, a Southern California phenomenon, were the strongest we’d had since I remember. They got up to 70 miles per hour, and when we awakened…

I remembered something! And now my notes make more sense. — Yesterday I wrote about a scrap of paper I scribbled all over while I was in the ER for a bike accident two and a half years ago. There was a huge chunk of it that didn’t make much sense. You can read that here: Notes from an Emergency Room Deciphering some old after-accident thoughtshumanparts.medium.com Memory is a funny thing…

Deciphering some old after-accident thoughts — In July of 2019, both tires on my road bike blew as I was riding. I put my foot down (wrong move); my bike kicked me off, and I landed on the back of my head. I was on a busy road, so I tried to get up, but I’d…

Now, the challenge is to never forget the lessons I learned — In CanIPlayThat.com’s “Inclusion for Creatives” workshops, my colleague Courtney Craven and I include a break-time exercise that’s designed to get folks to interrogate their environment. Pick a demographic marker you don’t currently occupy, we say. Imagine you’re Muslim, or Black, if you’re Christian, or Asian, for instance. …

An inadvertent, knee-jerk reaction to a headline* — How to help…I…for real? The world is going to hell in a fast-moving, greased-track dumpster; I can’t KonMari my life fast enough to keep up with the mental detritus, and you want me to think about helping hummingbirds? Hummingbirds! Those jerkface birds what do not know how to share; those…