Marriage Mini Rut

drawn in PowerPoint; paper texture and embossing added in Gimp

I wouldn’t exactly say my marriage is in a rut but I have my interests (can you guess?) and Mr. Doodles and Jots has his music and then pile on kids and jobs and what is left for each other?  Neither one of us is exceptionally needy and our marriage is fine but you could definitely say we have been in need of an easy way to connect.

Enter the TV mini-series!

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Fairy Tale Feud

apple print with tempera on card-stock

I have to admit I was excited to see splashy ads in Entertainment Weekly for two new prime-time series starting this fall both with fairly tale themes ABC’s Once Upon A Time and NBC’s Grimm. I find it strange when this happens and it seems to happen all the time that people or groups of people come up with the same idea separately at the same time. It seems like there is really something to collective unconscious. But back to television, I have always liked fairy tales well before I had kids and well after most young people have moved on to more grown-up content.

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