For the final design project in Chip’s studio, we were given the challenge to design the landscape for a yet-to-be-built AIDS Hospice in San Francisco. This was my first introduction to designing a therapeutic landscape, long before all the great books that are now out on the subject, so...

In honor of one of my favorite numbers, I’m skipping ahead in the daybooks, past my musings on Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” and my cartoon augmented scribing of Ferlinghetti’s “Pictures of the Gone World,” to the next landscape design project, a park between Lake Merritt and the freeway in Oakland....

So I toiled away with the clock project and then presented my design to the jury. For anyone who has never been to design school, just imagine a time when you thought you had a fantastic idea, you hadn’t eaten or slept in two days, and you shared this...

In design school, specifically landscape architecture at Cal in 1988, students need to draw all the time, to use the daybook to record thoughts, sketch design concepts, draw benches and other LA elements that catch our eye, take notes in class, until the daybook becomes an extension of the...

While I’ve kept a journal of sorts on and off since I was a kid,it wasn’t until I started graduate school in landscape architecture at U.C. Berkeley that it became my constant companion. So I’ve decided to start these weekly sketchbook shares by working through my design education. I...

My piece “A Cartoonist Interprets Her Own Poetry” was given an honorable mention in the Hip Mama/Unchaste Readers 2015 writing contest. To bounce the love back out into the universe I made this from sketches I did while riding BART into Berkeley a few days back....

One of my favorite online literary publications is Brevity, so I’m always thrilled when I can share my words through this venue. Over the weekend, I was able to attend Poets & Writers ((LIVE)) in San Francisco, and guest post on the Brevity blog (Making Love in Public part 1 and...

I just want to share a few awesome sources and materials for drawing. First of all, a book by Jason Brubaker , Unnatural Talent, is full of advice on making comics, self-publishing and being creative. He’s the author of the amazing graphic novels ReMIND I and II. As a light penciler,...

Life has been busy. I had a poem published in the anthology Not Somewhere Else But Here: a Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place in March. Night Dive off of San Miguel (Sundress Publications, edited by Erin Elizabeth Smith, T.A. Noonan, Rhonda Lott and Beth Couture) And I’m drawing/writing a lot.    ...

Right before the holidays, I received the 25th anniversary issue of I.T Post with my essay, “Inspiration Comes in Waves,” that includes an excerpt from my not yet published YA novel Hold My Hand. Below is the essay published on pages 104 and 105. The entire publication is gorgeous...