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Thanks to all who entered the drawing to win a copy of Leda Schubert’s READING TO PEANUT here and on my WordPress blog. And hooray to Jen Petro-Roy who will soon see PEANUT in her mailbox - a pretty swell thing for a soon-to-be-mama ( Read more... )

Ooooohh, friends.  Lookie here.  Leda Schubert's new (adorable) picture book!


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A whole bunch of my friends would suspect this means I am heading out for a Guinness and some fish and chips today.  Those friends are not wrong.  But I'm doing so in celebration of the other sort of pub day.  Yep, it is finally here:

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A little glitch in my gitalong kept me from blogging for a bit, but I'm back and with some fun stuff, too.


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This Design Observer article by Michael Beirut is really interesting to me in light of a discussion we had back here and here.  The article is about Beirut's early days as a designer and how the design firm for which he worked enforced very strict rules about the sorts of fonts, styles, and tools that might be employed in their designs.  Many young ( Read more... )

"The connections we make in the course of a life --
maybe that's what heaven is."
                                  --- Fred Rogers

The Art of Possibility, by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander,* is helping me figure out the week ahead.  See, I'm sort of in a limbo moment.  Let me lay it out for you:

• I'm about to turn 45.  YAY! A big birthday!  I love big birthdays for their taking-stock-quality.  So this is sort of a taking-stock week.
• Hound Dog True should hit stores at ( Read more... )

Two boys of kindergarten age:
"Well first was the Neandrethals and they were right from apes and didn't know about clothes."
"I know."
"But then they found out about them and got them from the animals."
"I know, but I don't think we should be talking about naked ancestors."
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