![]() ![]() ![]() Part two of this kick: I’m re-reading Octavian so that I can start-one day before the year 2020-my ARC of Octavian II. What fun mail that was! Thanks again, Adrienne! Anderson speak, and she sent me, knowing full well my great devotion to his books, an autographed copy of Feed. The ever-thoughtful Adrienne got to hear M.T. Seriously, yeah, I can handle the latter or at least do my best, but the rest? “Ask your father.” See, I’ve said before: He’s the better half.Ģ). “Ask your father.” The questions don’t stop: Meteors, the earth’s upper atmosphere, religion ( ah HOLY crap). And then she asks about electricity, and all I could think was ah crap. When my oldest asked me why blood is red, all I could think was hemoglobin? But I said, “ask your father.” He explained it perfectly to a four-year-old - in detail but in a way that made sense. Part two of this kick: I’m really glad I married someone who, once upon a time, was a scientist. Sometimes I just stare in utter amazement. I really don’t want to be one of those parents who goes on entirely too much about her children…but, people: My daughters keep growing up and growing up (in more ways than just shooting up - lordamercy, my four-year-old looks like she’s six), and I just can’t stop delighting in them. I love the cooler temps, too.Ħ* Today is my husband’s birthday, and to celebrate I took him out for sushi last night.ħ* And then I took him (along with our friends the Poets Upstairs) to an Andrew Bird concert.ġ). So I got it, and it’s awesome.Ĥ* That reading by Charles Simic I already told you about.ĥ* It was kind of a rainy, dreary week, but this weekend is gorgeous and the leaves are starting to sport their fall colors. Lo and behold, TV on the Radio has a brand-new album out: Dear Science. I really, truly almost cried over that.ģ* To celebrate my first new-job paycheck, I went into an awesome little indie music shop, thinking I’d treat myself to a new CD. It’s handwritten in pencil, and the first couple of pages have sketches of Charlotte and the farm. Also, I finally saw the manuscript of Charlotte’s Web. ![]() What do you all think? I’m having trouble even picking a favorite of the three.Ģ* I know, I’m starting to get tedious about how awesome my job is, but this week I got to hold a handwritten inventory of his estate written by the Marquis de Lafayette. And don’t forget to check out this page of her site for more art work. Here are two more of her illustrations below. I ate tons of wonderful sushi, saw the biggest dog I’ve ever seen (maybe it was a bear? A bear with a leash?), and enjoyed Disney Sea, the best amusement park I’ve ever been to! ![]() All those things came together when I went to Japan last year. On a more personal note, I love dogs, Disney World, and sushi. I love working with the next generation of artists and it gets me out of the house, too! I do freelance Illustration for various clients (mostly magazines), but I’m very lucky to show my work in galleries and teach Illustration at RISD Pre-College and Montserrat College of Art. I paint with an acrylic/gouache hybrid and am getting ready for my big Fall promotion campaign. I stumbled into Illustration, because I liked the endless possibilities and freedom it gave me in the business and art world. Actually, I thought I was going to study apparel design, but I quickly learned the summer before college that I didn’t really have a knack for it. I currently live in Providence, Rhode Island, after graduating from The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Illustration. Here are a few words from Lauren, and how about that mysterious mermaid above? Today we welcome Lauren Minco, an illustrator who balances teaching, freelance illustration, and showing her work in galleries. It’s the first Sunday of the month, so it’s time to feature a new or student illustrator. Jules: Welcome to our weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week-whether book-related or not-that happened to you. ![]()
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