My Brief Happy Life in the World of Children’s Books

I thought I was ready to write something about art today, but I was wrong.  I looked through a dozen “inspiring” quotes on the subject and not a single one of them inspired me.  They mostly sounded dry and dusty, clichés from the past without connection to the present much less the future. Or smug. Perhaps I am in the art doldrums because I have … Continue reading My Brief Happy Life in the World of Children’s Books

Let There Be Joy and Goofiness and Laughter and Art

I’ll be honest…I don’t know who these girls are.  Or who this photograph might belong to.  But since I first saw it, I’ve been taken with the outright joie de vivre captured here. I think they remind me a little of my own daughters, who are all grown up now and have their own kids and never owned hula skirts – plastic, grass, or otherwise.  … Continue reading Let There Be Joy and Goofiness and Laughter and Art