Tommy's Park, Portland, Maine and the neat weird Christmas lights they put up each year.
Today, I am annoyed at the wiki article on me. I wish it could be eliminated... kaput. It doesn't address the real work that goes into having an illustration career... children's needs, health issues, bills as a single parent most of my early career. While I kept my kids happy, healthy and safe.. my career became spotty and difficult. While my male counterparts careers soared I remained responsible and focused, my kids, first, my art, second.
I dislike this wiki article and many others that deal so impersonally and so slanted ignoring women's other job as mothers and parents. In my wiki article it forgets and consequently devalues my very real other sucessful career...even though I have verifiable proof of my parenting... birth certificates, school records, medical records, diplomas and awards, and lots and lots of drawings for mommy. Wiki's writers are instead curiously and insanely focused on whether I drew a comicbook, the date of it, and who I knew in the field of comics.
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All the accolades in the world would not be worth it if you were a failure at home. You had your priorities right and your kids know it (and so do I).
You always know what to say! Thanks Mary you are as always a sweetie!
Hope you are not suffering from the winter blues and doing some neat paintings.
Stop by the greenhouse this spring...April you'll love it. as it will be full of plants and smell wonderful.
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