My residency at Willapa Bay includes a lot of birds. The residency has a Haikubox that records and identifies birds by their song — 50 or 75 species a day.

Borrowed the residency’s old Toyota and drove into town. A block past the pharmacy and the bar and the weird grocery store (Jack’s) — the ocean. A small river spreads thin and crosses a huge flat stretch of sand. Crab shells, brown pelicans, cold sharp wind and a roar of waves.

Sketchbook diary: gifts Yesterday at dinner the UPS truck pulled up. It had a box for me, from M — the earrings I didn’t get to pick up from her after cancelled Chicago trip, a d a set of Caran D’Arch colors she brought back from Geneva. I used them to draw this gift of time and space.

#sketchbookdiary with some home-based stuff redacted. To get my head into the space where I am, I walked down to #WillapaBay bay and sat a long time by the water. I sketched. Better.

My writing cabin has a tiny visitor who has been here almost every day. Bird is hummingbird-sized and acrobatic, and comes and lands at the windows all as if to say hello. I am not sure what it is but it cheers me.

#sketchbookdiary May 2: I tried raw oysters for the first time. I wasn’t expecting to like them. They look like snot with organs. But, a secret for an interesting life is to say yes to weird stuff that lands in your lap, like eating the oysters that were harvested literally across the street.

#sketchbookdiary - I have been hanging on for this! On my birthday I caught airplanes. It flew to Portland, and the next day caught a bus to the Washington coast, to Willapa Bay and the Long Beach Penisula, where the Columbia meets the Pacific.

Men! Your options for scents today are Assassinated President, Roman Stoic, or Elk in Heat.

In my #sketchbookdiary recently, the poem that comes to my heart this time of year: “Instructions on Not Giving Up,” by Ada Limon. More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving

Sea otter cam ….

The slightly less squeaky clean version of befriending the ravens is that you can do it with peanuts but human blood also works, should your group include tampon users. We saw a lot of those ravens and they watched us CLOSELY.

"They say you can befriend ravens with peanuts, but being unable to manage the raven-proof garbage cans will also work." We're talking with @erinbowbooks.bsky.social today about her latest novel for kids. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2026/04/21/i...

So I have been off social media on purpose, again, but I am swinging back in with a COVER REVEAL, and a fun chat with Betsy Bird about my new book, Witchward Bound! afuse8production.slj... Come over and meet Butter and Owl.

We’ve had 200 cm of snow this year — 80 cm in January alone. Saint Francis needs a parka.

Welcome to the nail-biting-est moment in kid lit. I don’t even have anything out this year and I can hardly stand it.

LIVE FEED LIVE FEED LIVE FEED

Reminder. Here are the House Democrats who crossed party lines and voted to fund ICE. House Democrats who voted to fund ICE: - Tom Suozzi (D-NY) - Henry Cuellar (D-TX) - Don Davis (D-NC) - Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) - Laura Gillen (D-NY) - Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) - Jared Golden (D-ME)

My #sketchbookdiary is mostly about the mundanities of my life. It’s meant to be analog, grounded, imperfect — the opposite of AI — things that I have seen with my own eyes. But sometimes the news is the only thing that seems possible to draw.

A revised radiocarbon chronology of the monumental 18,000 y/o Upper #Paleolithic #mammoth bone structures of Mezhyrich in central #Ukraine suggests, it may have been used used for up to 429 years: 🏺 www.sci.news/archaeology/...

By the way, cost for this in Canada: $0. Plus parking.

Yes, indeed, the lumpectomy was is mostly something i am doing to cross a worry off my list — I have an adenoma and they are not dangerous. It’s been there a while and has been biopsied a couple of times. But it started growing when I started HRT, which made it a bit more bothersome.

A page from my #sketchbookdiary from back in December, before the great flu. I am still working on a visual shorthand to let me draw the people in my life — or people, generally — in a way that captures something interesting about them. I am getting a little closer.

Sometimes small things make me big happy — like this new lamp switch. This #sketchbookdairy is bedside table, captures the big peace of small things that are just as they should be.

I have been down with the flu for a few weeks, but I was intending a gentle return to posting. Instead my child woke me up to tell me my birth country was at war. Today’s #sketchbook diary - I am from Nebraska. It looks like this.

The world needs more science journalists, especially those with mad skills and ethics training. All that is provided for free by @theopennotebook.bsky.social, but we need your help. Join me in donating to support these amazing resources: www.theopennotebook.com/15thannivers...

The Washington Post keeps a running database. They estimate almost 400,000 American kids have survived school shootings since the Columbine massacre.

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I illustrate fiction and non-fiction picture books and am represented by Alexandra Penfold at Upstart Crow Literary. Website: lizwongillustration.com

Happy Birthday to me and also Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! What a good sport this lion is. #KidLitArt #KidLitIllustration #IllustrationArt #ChildrensIllustration

Hey look! It's #kidlitartpostcard day! This image is from a new picture book dummy submission. Contact my agent to view. Portfolio: www.davidhohn.com Represented by: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social #childrensbook #dogs #bestpals #kidlitart #illustration

Happy December #kidlitartpostcard day! When does winter feel like it's truly started for you? More work here: 🌐 Nicolaschofield.com I'm open for picturebook work in 2026. contact my lovely agent @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social #kidlitart #illustration #picturebooks

k8cosgrove Hello #kidlitartpostcard buddies, I make books for kids! Rep: Deborah Warren @eastwestlit.bsky.social #kidlitart #art #childrensbooks #NYTbestseller #moomininspired #kidsbooks #kidlit #mermaid #merbunny #rabbit #bunny

When my partner saw my previous #kidlitartpostcard he challenged me to make a forward-facing version. So here it is! I love illustrating busy scenes, vibrant colours and silly animals ❤️ Website: rachel-foo.com Agency 💼 : astound.us/publishing #art #kidlitart #illustration

Bustling about - much of the day in hospital for routine tests and images. grateful for free healthcare but also ready for cocoa and bed.

#sketchbookdiary progress: here’s where I am in learning to quick, highly abstracted sketches of people. That turns out to be (artists out there will be shocked!) REALLY HARD. Does anyone have resources to recommend?

Oh interesting, whose fault is that?

absolutely this time is a finite resource and we all only get so much of it and we don’t even know how much we’re gonna get spend it on things that matter to you 🩷

Example from my sketchbook diary of how picking one thing to record every day sometimes makes unexpected connections.

#sketchbookdiary — a snow squall.

This year for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I pledge to unsubscribe to every retailer that emails me. Join me?

Not quite sure about the new sketchbook. The last two were watercolor sketchbooks, but they have so few pages. This one is mixed media, and a more satisfying length, but sketch mostly with India ink in a fountain pen. There’s some ghosting — not terrible but visible.

First spread in a brand-new sketchbook diary - my third. I find all- black objects hard to capture, but I am pleased with this sketch of my cat Cygnus. #cygnustheemotionalsupportcat

I want this moment for us

Hey remember this? Look now!

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

Writers and librarians, speak to me of archives. We are cleaning out the Doom Room in our house. I have uncovered multiple bankers boxes full of my novel drafts and notebooks full of scribbles and research etc.

Happy gotcha day to Agate, queen of the moon.

Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.

I had a GP appt today, and we were comparing notes on treating my POTS and I mentioned the new hives thing maybe indicated MCAS and said “I know you must dread people who did their own research.” Doctor: oh, no, you’re okay; this is great.” Me: really?

Canada passes a budget (narrowly) - play by play of how it actually went down.