I don’t know how many people actually read this, but I guess that’s never really been the point of writing here anyway. The past half year or so has been challenging with the loss of a couple pets and then just getting crushed by kids’ activities and parenting responsibilities. I do believe that the activities are a lot better than sitting around at home all day with the kids and trying not to fight. This feels like the correct path, so I’ll keep walking it despite the challenges that arise unless something happens that makes me realize I’ve been doing it all wrong; I suppose that is inevitable anyway.

I wanted to start back on the novel I spent most of the summer working on (which I restarted after it had been under my desk for seven years), but when I went to the optometrist the other day they noticed my optic nerves looked pale, and it is probably nothing, and if there is something then it seems like basically no matter what it could be that it should be fairly easy to remedy. I did, and still do (once in a while) fear I may go blind, and if that happens then I won’t be able to make art, at least not in the way I do now, and that is pretty scary for me. Fortunately my daughters keep me pretty busy so I’m not just sitting around thinking about it.

I’ve made both of my older daughter’s books in the past, but I have yet to make one for my youngest. So that’s what I’m focused on presently. She has sucked on two of her fingers since she was in the womb, and she’s also had pneumonia a couple times along with all kinds of coughs and other stuff that she may have had anyway, but, as you know, sucking on fingers that you aren’t great at washing is not a good thing.

So I am hard at work on a book for her called “Get Your Fingers Out of Your Mouth!”, and I’m making that my main priority. I get about 15 or so hours each week to work uninterrupted and I think I may get it finished in the next couple of weeks.

Here are a few of the images from the book so far.