Finding a Festive Challenge in the Darker Days of the Year — If you are a person with any serious interest in drawing — whether or not you are an artist by trade — and have spent any amount of time on the internet, it’s likely that you have at least a passing awareness of Inktober. Started back in 2009 by illustrator…

There are no failures here, just learning experiences — To preface — a conversation between my wife and I, three days after being released from the hospital after I gave birth to our son: Suffice it to say, my wife and I have distinct tastes when it comes to fashion. Not to say there is no overlap, but I…

An ADHDer’s obsession with laminated list-making — A mind like a steel sieve I wish I had the type of brain that held on to routine. …

I found a heart, and then I found a movement — It was an afterthought; we had gone to the library to get a pile of books for my seven-year-old, and I was already doing a piss-poor job at tackling my extant To Be Read pile. I wasn’t planning on taking out a book, but the line at the circulation desk…

Button-making for fun and profit — I have been, for better or for worse, conditioned to expect instant gratification. Maybe not in a literal sense; there are different scales of “instant,” if you know what I mean. Five-seconds of suffering through an ad before skipping to my YouTube video is acceptable; an unskippable 30-second ad is…