This would be four pages with one large splash and two small panels on each (latter of which you can't really see).

I made this tote bag for my cousin. She just went on a lifelong dream vacation to New Zealand (home of Middle Earth filming) and her boyfriend proposed in a very Lord of the Rings themed way. I figured I would be on-brand and make something showing off a quote that she associates with the story.

Last weekend we stayed in Providence for the night for a viewing of a live orchestra playing the soundtrack to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban with the movie…

Trying to keep up with the project. Here are some drafts of a chapter about some sensory memories from my grandparents house. I wrote this last fall so have been playing around with how that could work visually…

“I look forward to going home for the holidays all year. I spent several years after college not being able to come home for Christmas, so now I plan my entire Paid Time Off use around the holidays. Unfortunately this year my brother and his family couldn't make it, but my dad and I went down to their house on Long Island for a couple days.”

“The holiday season so far has been crazy. So many projects all of the sudden and I ended up having to left some of them go. But here are the ones I actually got to…”

​In October, I made big plans to go see my family in Florida during Thanksgiving week…

A lovely vegetarian Thanksgiving with the Misura family in my cousin's new home. Last time I was down in Florida for Thanksgiving was when the Misura grandparents were still alive. It was nice to gather together and reminisce about those who are no longer with us. And eat excellent pie

“Some friends and family members may have heard that we had to say goodbye to Archie the guinea pig this week…”

“Whew. 300+ thumbnails in 5 days and have started a final draft of a 20-page scene, so far have drawn 2 pages/32 panels. Been having trouble sleeping though and have been lying awake stressing out about things and am tired all the time, so it's a mixed bag over here.”

Recent hospital trip really fueled some thumbnailing. 160 panels to be exact?! These somehow all poured out over the course of 2 hours last night, excited to see where they go.

“Twas the night before our 4th anniversary when all through the night, not a creature was stirring, not even me, since I was unconscious because I fainted on a packed train.”

“10/1 First stab at inktober. Not sure how helpful this will be in terms of productivity because I'm trying to focus on thumbnails after work each night and it's not penciltober. But had fun picking this set of panels from my thumbnails and imagining them at a later stage…”

“This was my first time attending MICE! We attended a panel discussion on graphic memoirs, including Travis Dandro (King of King Court), and a Q&A featuring Jaime Hernandez (Love and Rockets), led by my teacher from the Graphic Novel workshop, Paul Karasik (How to Read Nancy).”

“I've been doing a ton of thumbnailing the last month and a half and finally decided that I should try out a page to see how I feel about one being fully rendered. It felt helpful, even if it felt like a pretty indulgent break from thumbnailing…”

“Two years ago, Grandma Rose and I spent our shared birthday together for the first and last time. She was turning 85 and I was turning 27, with exactly 58 years between us to the day. It was the last time I ever saw her. It's hard knowing that our birthday will always be bittersweet now, with only one of us here to celebrate it…”

“A nice fresh pitcher of iced homemade Gatorade. Or as it was called in the Misura household, 'bug juice' (catch-all name for any cold summer drink served in a pitcher)…”

“​I've been taking my time incorporating different artifacts from my grandparents house into my own home. It's tough because I feel like my home would become a museum if I put out every little thing that I've inherited when I only have so much space. But I've picked and chosen specific items that mean a lot to me and have tried to find little ways to incorporate them with what I already have. I already feel a sense of relief having bits and pieces of their lives together in mine…”

“This weekend my parents came to visit. They brought a huge load of things from my grandparents' house, which I'm still sorting through but so touched to have in my possession…”