Better together (in person)
Earlier this month, I took a road trip up through Oregon with my family. We stayed with my college roommates outside Sacramento, then wound our way up through Ashland, a town I hadn’t been to since attending the Shakespeare Festival as a freshman in college. From...
The nature of deadlines
Lately I’ve been drawing a lot. Normally I save my drawing time for Fridays, which is my art day (Monday through Thursday, I work as an illustration editor for the academic journal Annual Reviews, and the weekends are usually full of family-related activities). I...
Decluttering my brain
As a person who has worked from home for the past 17 years, I listen to a LOT of podcasts and audiobooks. I mostly listen when I’m working on things that are purely visual and don’t require the verbal part of my brain. Since that’s a good portion of my work as a...
