February is Letter Writing Month!!

A challenge to get you letter writing. For each mailing day in February, write a letter and mail it. It is that simple. (More on the challenge here.)

My first set of February letters written yesterday and heading to a mailbox near you!

letter writing is awesome!

I have totally gotten back into letter writing. Seriously. I write 5-10 a week. Letter writing is fun. I get to send paper "hugs" to friends & family I haven't seen in a while. AND the best part is that often they write back!!! While I was working long hours yesterday, no one gathered the mail at our house. I found the pile this morning. Underneath the scads of election mail I had not one, but three letters waiting for me. My friends are AWESOME! Thank you for making this Tuesday a much better day. :^)

Earthquakes and Sherlock Holmes

When I get stuck on a drawing, I often work it through by thinking about something else entirely. Today it was earthquakes. Earthquakes usually need to be over 3.0 on the richter scale before I feel them. However, this morning's 2.7 banged into the studio when I was working (see above map courtesy of the USGS). For some reason, this map made me think about Sherlock Holmes - I don't know why, I haven't read any of those stories for years. One of the things that always drove me nuts about those books was the way Holmes would meet a shady character then declaim to Watson later that he couldn't have been the murderer because the ink stain on his right hand clearly means he was right-handed and the knife was obviously wielded by a left-handed man wearing Ugg boots (or some such). Below is a photo of my hands at the end of letter writing yesterday. Tell me, Sherlock, what hand do I write with, huh?