I'm one of those people with restless hands. I need to be doodling, or biting my nails, or making socks.

In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at and touched and read over and over. Maybe even chewed on a little. Everything needs to be thoughtful and economical, thirty-two little masterpieces.

I'm one of those people with restless hands. I need to be doodling, or biting my nails, or making socks.

Knitting is repetitive, rewarding, and calms me down like a warm bath. But it takes up juuuust enough brainspace that I can't come up with ideas. Which is too bad, because I love multitasking.

You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.

Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!

I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles.