At the Carnival...

Kojo Sleeping, Bika nearby

Kojo is a sweet sweet 11 year old German Shorthair Pointer. He's a beautiful liver color, with a six pointed white star on his chest. He loves to run but alas is getting old and has been on chemo for lymphoma. He sleeps a lot now, but is always game for a romp with is younger sidekick, Jabu. Bika is sleeping nearby. Great pack!

University of Iowa Hospital

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa

On July 27th, 1991 I received a life saving

double organ transplant here.

Kidney and pancreas -

cured my diabetes and

saved me from renal failure

and a short life on dialysis.

Gina was my organ donor

- she was killed in a car

accident in Colorado.

The surgeons flew off this

building in a helicopter

and returned with my gift of life.

(Please consider checking YES

on your driver's license for

Organ Donor!

God forbid you should

ever be one though -

unless you are a LIVING donor.

Cheers!)

Bluebird Café, Iowa City, Iowa

The Fops!

Another trip to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival this year to draw my favorite people, the Fops.

Drawing Sharri in NYC

New York City • April 2010

From my agent's apartment on 38th Street and 3rd Avenue, looking east and north.

My agent of 25 years and dear friend, Anita (aka Nini) reading the Sunday NY Times at her dining table.

Another view from Anita's apartment in NYC - this time looking east and south. The morning sun was blocking out the light on some buildings creating great shapes.

More Drawings from Morocco - March 2010

People of Marrakech, Morocco (new friends!)

Toria

Khadija

Said (SAH-eed)

Souad

Aissam aka "Jerry Lewis" - despite the serious expression, Aissam was all about slapstick and laughing.

March 2010: Drawings from Marrakech, Morocco

Fabulous Megan

First week of December - 2 events

Infections should not visit on Saturdays, because then you have to go to the ER for treatment and wait, wait, wait.
Friday night reading at the bookstore Prairie Lights in Iowa City. The author was Stephen Bloom. His book was "Tears of Mermaids" about pearls and the pearl trade. He likened pearos to cocaine in their cost, scarcity, levels of purity and secretive distribution channels. That seemed like a stretch. The lecture was actually pretty boring - I felt like I was in class listening to the prof drone on.
Author droning and people listening - at least early on.

Signage Part 2 - Ced-Rel Motel & Fine Food

I have always loved this sign - it's so graphically bad, and the name suggests an unimaginative business name (Cedric and Mariel?) A mystery. Had to draw it. The Motel is long and unassuming, typical roadside motel on a minor highway, and then this restaurant out of the 60's next door. Fine food: crab claws on Friday. Who would even stop there? To eat or stay? It's in the middle of nowhere. My husband's employee tells him it's a place that registered sex-offenders live. Motel, fine food and sex offenders?

Iowa Signage Part 1

Kalona, Iowa