The new year started with Olive, Brittany, and me curled up in a tent in Bastrop State park. We didn’t really know if Olive would be able to stay through the night without barking, but we’ve been wanting to incorporate camping into our life and I’ve been taking to marking the passage of time with these long hikes in nature for some reason. Birthdays, anniversaries, and now new years. When I’m walking and at mile 3 or 4, I can feel the breath in my chest with the steady in and

Sometimes when I have completely run out of ideas, or interesting places, or thoughts, or anger, I instead draw the same couple of patterns and lines over and over again. Layering them on top of each other in familiar and unfamiliar ways, deciding which color looks best combined with the other, drawing the same Olive cartoon shape. And the more I layer things, the more patterns interact, the easier it is for the final product to appear in my head. The thing that I love about

One of the things that happens when you are working in any type of design or graphic profession is that people present you with a lot of very poorly done drawings that they use to diagram what they are exactly looking for. My father use to draw on napkins when he was working on a project or wanted to illustrate something, usually to the dinner table during an argument. And he'd always pull his pen out of his front pocket and begin to scribble something down. If he didn't have