Sneak peak at a fun project I’ve started on. More soon, friends!

This is just one of the many reasons I love Laurie Anderson.

Happy Mother’s Day to every mother. Most of all to my wife, Meredith, who was the first person long ago to remind me that, as the saying goes, “every mother is a working mother.”

She saw that lived-out in her mother and now I see it lived out in her. Thank you for everything you do for children and our family, Meredith.

Rest in peace, Howard Zinn. Wow. Very sad loss.

HowardZinn.org

Peoples History Author Howard Zinn Dies at 87 – NYTimes.com.

Enjoy the first installment of “A Scripture Picture”, a few fun takes on familiar and not so familiar scripture. Not too “versed” in the Bible? That’s okay. Nor am I. Just don’t take it too seriously, and you’ll have a good time.

Some more fun-time artwork. Hope you like it!

On Christmas day, songwriter Vic Chesnutt died. Listen here as Michael Stipe recalls Chesnutt’s life. Or listen to Vic Chesnutt on Mountain Stage at NPR.org.

MP3 - Like a Monkey in a Zoo

Recently it occurred to me that one of the first tools I adopted to help me understand the passage of time was the cartoon. Over time, cartoons and sit coms became my reference for how long something might last. During the years of Saturday morning cartoons, followed by after-school shows and then sit coms, the half-hour became the gauge in which I measured the length of all other things.

How long long will we be at the doctor, mom? An hour? Why, that’s as long as it takes to watch the Cosby Show twice. How long have I been in Math class? 15 minutes? Thundercats would have been half over by now. Why does it feel like I’ve been in here for at least three episodes of Thundercats, then?

This may have been my introductory tool to time management, but it was merely the first of many. When I was diagnosed with A.D.D. two years ago, I realized that over the years I have utilized all sorts of random tools to help me manage my time. Some of those things have worked, others have not. Daytimers, wall calendars, watches, alarms and alerts, cellphones, teachers, parents, friends, etc. But it wasn’t until I finally read Getting Things Done that I really wrapped my arms around the need to have a tight methodology and a clear personal understanding of how to handle time, as well as the things I have to do with my time. That was just last year.

I often think how nice it would have been if I had learned some of the fundamentals of GTD and time management in general when I was young and busy discovering that church is about two Scooby-Dos long.

So, who will be the one who brings time management ideas to a younger audience? My children will be the ones who are going to be juggling whatever crazy schedules life has for them as they grow. It is almost guaranteed it will be more complex than they are even today. How are they going to learn to get things done?

Illustrations by Bryan Moats

It is so rare lately that I take the time to draw, to draw with no specific agenda in particular. I guess before much of my illustration became primarily digital, I would have just called it sketching. I still sketch, on paper, for sure. In fact, that has never gone away. I forget, however, that I can still sketch digitally. And that’s where this picture of my friend Paul (Frosty) comes in.

One late night, everyone is asleep. I think I’ll just doodle.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and has a great winter!

Came across this comical April Fools joke recently on Strange Maps. Any typography enthusiasts will enjoy this, so feel free to pass it on again. More information can be found at Strange Maps, but the short story is the map was first published on April 1, 1977 in a Guardian supplement that explored the 10th anniversary San Serriffe’s independence from Britain.

The hoax turned out to be quite extensive. In fact, it was elaborate enough to have been ‘revisited’ by the Guardian again in 1978, 1980,  and 1999. It has been developed even further by individuals who developed spin-offs like games, clubs, additional April Fools jokes, and even a series of books. Read more about the hoax at the Museum of Hoaxes.