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Can You Draw? In my earliest memories my dad was a student at Art Center College of Design . People would always ask me, "Are you going to be an artist like your daddy, when you grow up?" I remember being bewildered by that question and responding with "I already am." This of course made all the adults laugh a lot, but I didn't understand why. Look at this baby: That is my mom, me, and Sara when I was five. (Sara had really dark hair when she was a babykins.) I even had a picture published in The Friend ! Number 13, that is a picture of singing time in primary, at church . (I just noticed the bear creeper in the corner, he totally wants to eat my well behaved primary child!) This is a picture of people saying "No" to a bad guy offering them alcohol. (Notice the hat, hats are untrustworthy.) Also the sun is jump roping and the cloud is roller skating. No one ever offers them alcohol. I have been reading about child drawings. The development stages are p...

Kid Pix Monday By popular demand Kid Pix is back! (aka Bryce and I liked making the other Kid Pix drawing so much that we decided to do it again.) Perhaps it can become a tradition? This week's Kid Pix was inspired by this article at CNN. Apparently sharks are in danger of extinction because they have delicious fins. I wouldn't know about the fins. I eat cows, and chickens, and pigs, and tofus because I am pretty sure none of them can eat me back. (Okay, pigs probably could eat me.) Sharks however, could easily eat me, so I don't want to provoke them. Perhaps Kid Pix Monday should also be weird coincidences in Rachel-and-Handsome-Bryce's-childhood-day. As kids both of us were pretty obsessed with drawing pictures of sharks. Probably many people are fascinated by sharks, but did most people turn in homework depicting a feeding frenzy in the margins? It's just that sharks are so powerful and terrible, like a torpedo of death that swims and jumps, and has magical pits...

Kid Pix Sara and I used to spend hours playing with a kids drawing program called "Kid Pix". Our kid pixing mostly revolved around an elaborate story about Carmen Sandiego, and the blundering side-kick we invented for her, named Bow-zie. I was pretty excited to learn that Handsome Bryce also spent many of his formative years hypnotized by Kid Pix. It has a feature called "draw me" where it describes a...thing... to you and asks you to draw it. This creation was a dual effort between Bryce and me: Beautiful isn't it?