Today Jeans and I were talking about a book group she's in. A small publisher submits manuscripts to a group of volunteers for vetting and proofreading. She invited me to join, but after a few weeks of skimming the group's Facebook page I realized it wasn't a good fit for me. Too tine consuming and too much like work. When I told her why I was ( Read more... )

Today is very wet and stormy.  I can hear the raindrops drumming on the roof and splashing down off the edge of the roof outside my office window.  Such a downpour keeps the residents far, far away, so it's been exceptionally quiet this morning.

So I did some doodling.

It started with a self-portrait:


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Things have gotten a bit crazy around here, what with Christmas around the corner and our trip to Florida directly after that.  I'd bought all the presents for our family and had them in a pile, but no time to wrap them ( Read more... )