Awesome doodle tips: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/12/how_to_doodle.html. The key to being un-self-conscious in art points to doodling, that daydreamy scribbling of bored kids.  Can doodling be learned? Seems like an important and immediate way to attach your arm… Continue reading

I can’t think of a greater thing I did for myself than have this birthweek in which I was uncharacteristically kind to myself every day. Here’s a list of self-centric things I’ve always wanted to… Continue reading

There’s no unsexier place I longed to experience than the  marsh that edged the Dumbarton Bridge between Fremont and Menlo Park. They’re now officially the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge, but were once known… Continue reading