A loving labor of a lifetime? A masterpiece? My life's work? Not exactly. In fact, you can't even hear the music once the grasshoppe...

I've been struggling with trying to make a grasshopper walk into a bar for two days. And it just hasn't worked. Add this to my compl...

Sometimes I get really overwhelmed with work. That's when I do things like get up at five, color comics, go to work for eight hours, the...

"Cool! I think I get to go back to Cairo for a few weeks. Really soon. Maybe even next week. I'll go post that on the blog as soon ...

JetCity Jimbo was both my inspiration and competition, sometimes both at once. But he became ill right before MariesWorldTour, and it was e...

I guess this doesn't need an explanation. I was 12. Cut me some slack.

Commuting, I'd thought, was a bad time to read Amanda's Greece story. I'd seen an early draft of "At the Seashore With Med...

It's hard to believe I've been home for six weeks already. Fifty days ago, my fingers clenched the dust-embedded seat of a 25-year-o...

I've acquired a new desk and a bookcase. Both are on top of Henry the Ford Taurus in my garage, because I couldn't get anyone to hel...

Ever since Turbo put the finishing touches on my last apartment, I've hated my dusty old furniture, which seemed tired and worn-out by ...