My storytime kids wrote their own book and I illustrated it while the story was unfolding. We’re all pretty proud of it and want to share it with you. Feel free to print it out and use it as a coloring book, or as a prompt to show your kiddos they too can write theirContinue reading “Free download: Coloring Book for/by Children”
Author Archives: JoDash
Early Spring
The warm breeze floats through the air. It’s enough to make her pause. She leans her face into the sun’s warming light and lets the breeze wash over her, clearing out the winter blues. She gently slides her feet out of her sandals and steps down onto the sidewalk. Bare skin to gritty warmth.Her feetContinue reading “Early Spring”
Fugate Avenue
A Queen City childhood. A little, brick ranch on Fugate Avenue. I don’t remember the house. Or the yard. Or my life there. I was two when we moved out. I do remember wood walls, not the sheets of thin, wood paneling, but solid wood walls. Scores of wood stacked side by side to formContinue reading “Fugate Avenue”
Wild Eyebrows, NPR, & Subarus
A Queen City childhood. My Uncle Jim has wild eyebrows and listens to NPR. For most of my life he drove one of the oldest Subarus still in working order but has recently made the switch to a Prius. He claims he can hear it hum when no one else can, even though he isContinue reading “Wild Eyebrows, NPR, & Subarus”
Thistle Porch 