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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: A simple photograph. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>On my desk this week: a few in-progress illustrations for my thesis project.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Painting elegy/a crow/Ba, my first accordion book and illustrated poem</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The beginning of my process: thumbnail sketches about a nebulous story.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>I created several more sets of thumbnails before a direction became clear.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A final, digital sketch, and more experiments in color—which I generally use to create mood, atmosphere, and emotion.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The final painting on my desk…need a bigger desk!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Life is infinitely inventive - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of the panels from elegy/a crow/Ba, my 8-page illustrated poem, now available as a hand-assembled accordion book</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Life is infinitely inventive - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Life is infinitely inventive - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Listening to yourself. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>from Listening to Yourself for Issue 56 of UPPERCASE Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A glimpse of the art from “Elegy/A Crow/Ba”, an illustrated poem (forthcoming)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: How I give my thanks. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>From Notes on Inspiration for Issue 55 of Uppercase Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Confronting your inner critic. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>From The Worst Boss I've Ever Had, a comic about confronting your inner critic.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - The Worst Boss I've Ever Had - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - The Worst Boss I've Ever Had - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - The Worst Boss I've Ever Had - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - The Worst Boss I've Ever Had - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - The Worst Boss I've Ever Had - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Dear Somebody: Together at last. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>From Three Shooting Stars, a tiny comic about the life of an artist.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Three Shooting Stars - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>JOURNAL (OLD) - Three Shooting Stars - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pen on bristol paper</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A page from my sketchbook: Lisle Sur Tarn, France – reimagined with N</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A thousand years. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: On giving up. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Days 6 and 7 of the 100 Day Project (ink on paper, 2026)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>HIDDEN OBJECTS in the January issue of SPARK Magazine (2026)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A close up of HIDDEN OBJECTS in the January issue of SPARK Magazine (2026)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: On giving up. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: On giving up. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: On giving up. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: On giving up. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: On giving up. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A monster inside the wall. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An illustration for ANYWAY Magazine (2026)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A monster inside the wall. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>In the Know: Anxiety for ANYWAY Magazine (2026)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In the Know: Anxiety for ANYWAY Magazine (2026)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Coloring and journal pages for ANYWAY Magazine (2026)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Journaling exercise for ANYWAY Magazine (2026)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>December 2025/January 2026 issue of ANYWAY Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Studio desk on February 19, 2026 (2026)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A monster inside the wall. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A monster inside the wall. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: More Than Machine. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“More Than Machine” for Issue #68 of Uppercase Magazine (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: More Than Machine. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A photo of my essay and illustration, “More Than Machine” for Issue #68 of Uppercase Magazine (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: More Than Machine. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A photo of my illustration and essay, “More Than Machine”, for Issue #68 of Uppercase Magazine (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Issue #68 of Uppercase Magazine (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: More Than Machine. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: More Than Machine. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: New beginnings. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: New beginnings. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A completed exercise from LEARN TO LET GO: A JOURNAL FOR NEW BEGINNINGS (2026)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: New beginnings. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>“More Than Machine” for Issue #68 of Uppercase Magazine (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Me kneeling in front of Target’s WELLBEING READS display, holding a copy of LEARN TO LET GO (2026)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Ladies in front of Target’s WELLBEING READS display; N holding a copy of LEARN TO LET GO (2026)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: New beginnings. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of my completed exercises from LEARN TO LET GO (2026)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: New beginnings. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>L with Thing 1, Thing 2, and a seesaw (London, 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>St. James Park #1 (photographed by N in London, 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>St. James Park #2 (photographed by N in London, 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>St. James Park #3 (photographed by N in London, 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>J, L, Me, T, and F (London, 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The beginnings of final artwork for DEAR LIBRARY (ink on Arches, 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: How to get back up. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An illustration from LEARN TO LET GO which reads “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” —Ernest Hemingway (watercolor, 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Learning to Let Go, published by Michael O’Mara Books (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Three Sisters Make a Wish for Uppercase Issue #67 (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The cover of LEARNING TO LET GO, published by Michael O’Mara Books (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Reasons to Survive November hanging in our mudroom (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: N turns five years old. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: N turns five years old. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>N’s flamingo cake, on her fifth birthday (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: N turns five years old. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>N eats a flamingo on her fifth birthday (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: It's publication day! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: It's publication day! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: It's publication day! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: It's publication day! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: It's publication day! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Letting go of yes. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>October desk (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Letting go of yes. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>My studio mate Georgia O’Keefe, made by artist Krista Coons (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Letting go of yes. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Speckles and streamers. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A gift from V: A prescription from The Poetry Pharmacy (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Poetry prescription from my bottle of medicine (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My Start Where You Are 2026 weekly planners and wall calendars (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: I'm on my way. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Start Where You Are: A Journal for Self-Exploration (2015!)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Finding Start Where You Are at Tate Moden with N and F :) (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>N’s London sketchbook (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Observing Mont Blanc in Chamonix, France (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Falling from the sky in Chamonix, France (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The foot of Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix, France (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A pair of wings. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Suspended 9,000 feet in the air in Chamonix, France (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A pair of wings. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>T jumps into flight in Chamonix, France (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The portrait of a young artist in Annecy, France (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>France sketchbook (2025, colored pencil and marker on paper)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>France sketchbook (2025, crayon and marker on paper)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>France sketchbook (2025, crayon and marker on paper)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: How do I start this day? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: How do I start this day? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: On this side of the lake. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Planting a Garden (sketchbook, 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lake Michigan on the Milwaukee side (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: On this side of the lake. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A photo of my latest essay for Uppercase Magazine on daily journalling</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: On this side of the lake. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A photo of my latest essay for Uppercase Magazine (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Issue 66 of Uppercase Magazine (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: On this side of the lake. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Happy Gardener by Hermann Kem (oil on panel)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Breton Spinner by Eugene Feyen (oil on panel)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Glass Blower (artist unknown) (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The car ride home. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The car ride home. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A glimpse at some of the finished and in-process paintings on my desk (watercolor and ink, 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The car ride home. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The car ride home. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The car ride home. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: When all is quiet. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: When all is quiet. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A recent sketchbook page (watercolor and ink, 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Looking for the good. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A fallen tree and garage (Saint Louis, 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>N helps the fairy garden (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Looking for the good. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Elfis and his home (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Looking for the good. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A perfect moon (Cincinatti, 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The French cover of GO YOUR OWN WAY, published by Le Livre de Poche</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The French edition of GO YOUR OWN WAY, published by Le Livre de Poche</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An interior painting from the French edition of GO YOUR OWN WAY</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Rules to live by. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Five Rules for Artistic Integrity for RULES TO LIVE BY Zine (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>5 Rules for Artistic Integrity by Meera Lee Patel, as part of the Rules to Live Byzine (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Portraits of N and Mama (Mother’s Day 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Learn to let go. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Learn to let go. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The first time I held a printed copy of Learn to Let Go (Saint Louis, 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Learn to let go. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Learn to let go. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Aminata Linnaea, 2013 by María Berrío, courtesy of Victoria Miro</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The many lives inside us. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The many lives inside us. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Wedding Sari for Issue 65 of Uppercase Magazine (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Paul Simon at Stifel Theatre in Saint Louis (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ben Kweller at Off Broadway in Saint Louis (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Wedding Sari for Issue 65 of Uppercase Magazine (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Wedding Sari for Issue 65 of Uppercase Magazine (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The many lives inside us. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Birthday thoughts. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>New storyboard for an old story that has a special place in my heart (graphite on tracing paper, 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Birthday thoughts. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Bluey cake for little F’s second birthday (April 2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An image from Frog and Toad: Dragons and Giants by Arnold Lobel</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cover of Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Lost in a field. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Lost in a field. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Wedding invitation (watercolor on paper, 2019)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Paintings I’ve taken down and put away, for now (graphite on paper, 2023)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The cover of Bystander, a comics anthology edited by Kadak Collective</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Finding Your True North for Issue #64 of Uppercase Magazine (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Meera Lee Patel x Biely &amp; Shoaf: SO MUSHROOM IN MY HEART FOR YOU</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sisters celebrating a birthday (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My desk this week: color studies, sketches, rewrites (2025)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Winsor McCay, Little Nemo in Slumberland, 26 July 1908</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Census at Bethlehem (1566), oil on wood panel</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sketchbook page from January 9, 2025</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chihiro Iwasaki, Tyltyl and Mytyl Running after the Blue Bird from Aoi Tori (The Blue Bird), Kodansha, 1969 | Courtesy of the Chihiro Art Museum Tokyo</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A new year's day. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Little Mermaid Thinking of the Prince</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A new year's day. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Source: Jama’s Alphabet Soup</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A new year's day. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>An image of Richard Brautigan’s Karma Repair Kit</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A new year's day. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The December sun. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The December sun. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The December sun. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The December sun. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: You are spring. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A small peek into my latest drawing (mixed media, 2024)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: You are spring. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A small peek into my latest drawing (mixed media, 2024)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: In the midst of things. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: In the midst of things. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Stay Golden, four-color risograph. Printed by Land Gallery in Portland, Oregon (2024)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: In the midst of things. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Stay Golden, four-color risograph (2024)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: In the midst of things. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Stay Golden, four-color risograph (2024, detail shot)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: In the midst of things. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Stay Golden crewneck sweatshirts, made in collaboration with Golden Hour</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: In the midst of things. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: In the midst of things. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: In the midst of things. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Like a cloud. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Like a cloud. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Like a cloud. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Like a cloud. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Like a cloud. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Like a cloud. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>N as the perfect cloud (2024)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Cutting out the rot. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Cutting out the rot. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>N’s 4th birthday cake: a rainbow cake! (2024)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Cutting out the rot. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>N’s 4th birthday cake: definitely a rainbow cake. (2024)</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-04-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: In the name of sisterhood. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: In the name of sisterhood. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Color testing for a risograph edition of Stay Golden (2024)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: In the name of sisterhood. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: In the name of sisterhood. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Working pastel into the painting (2 of 3)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: In the name of sisterhood. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A favorite spread from my 2025 weekly planner</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: In the name of sisterhood. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Color study of N and Penguin (2024)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: There is every reason to believe. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: There is every reason to believe. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Meeting Penguin in a Dream (mixed media on paper, 2024)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Adding light washes of gouache (1 of 3)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Working pastel into the painting (2 of 3)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: There is every reason to believe. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Adding colored pencil and more pastel (3 of 3)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: There is every reason to believe. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Color study of N and Penguin (2024)</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-04-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Losing a penguin - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Losing a penguin - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>N and Penguin — love goes on and on and on (pencil on paper, 2024)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Losing a penguin - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Color study of N and Penguin (2024)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.meeralee.com/journal/dear-somebody-i-am-not-a-machine</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-09-20</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: I am not a machine. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: I am not a machine. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A page from my sketchbook (September 5, 2024)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: I am not a machine. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: I am not a machine. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Outside Strega Nona’s house at The Rabbit hOle museum</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An illustration of my family for Issue 38 of Chickpea Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From my illustrated essay, The Biggest Dream, for Chickpea Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chickpea Magazine, Issue 38: Ease</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An image of my essay, “The Biggest Dream,” for Issue 38 of Chickpea Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An image of my essay, “The Biggest Dream,” for Issue 38 of Chickpea Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My latest illustration for Issue 62 of Uppercase Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dear Library deal announcement. Note: this artwork isn’t from the book!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Emily and I at The Bookshop in Nashville, a place where we’ve sang many songs, welcomed many books into the world, and made many memories (2024)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My latest illustration for Issue 62 of Uppercase Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pencil sketches of my girls (2023)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>T and Jack, May 2024.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A tiny glimpse of my current project.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>N eating homemade granola: a glimpse from my forthcoming illustrated essay about food + family, for Issue 38 (EASE) of Chickpea Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Me and my birthday girl (2024)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An illustration for my column, Being, in Issue #61 of Uppercase Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Combing through the paintings from my picture book and starting all over again</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From my illustrated version of William Bronk’s The Tell</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>UNTITLED #1: A collaboration between me (age 6) and my child (age 3)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>UNTITLED #1. Cut paper collage and acrylic paint on paper. Begun in 1993, completed in 2023.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A Lesson in Unconditional Love from How it Feels to Find Yourself</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The artwork for a recent collaboration with Golden Hour Candle Co.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Part of this past week’s progress</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Page 150 from my book of essays, How it Feels to Find Yourself</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Making new paths. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>New shelves in my studio hold some of my published books and projects.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An illustration for Issue #60 of Uppercase Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The start of something. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Poem-writing at my messy, neglected desk: a longed-for part of each day.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A houseboat in London, banked along the Thames River.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The music in my ears, spotted in the London underground last week.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A paint palette from How it Feels to Find Yourself</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A lesson in unconditional love. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Two pieces I made this year that I finally framed, ready to hang in our home.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Joy is not made to be a crumb. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Joy is not made to be a crumb. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>From a series of collages I made to accompany Ilya Kaminsky’s We Lived Happily During the War (2022)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A song for myself - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A song for myself - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The final painting and exercise from my latest journal, Go Your Own Way</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A song for myself - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: It's publication day! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: It's publication day! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: It's publication day! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: It's publication day! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A wish. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Inyeon. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Inyeon. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>An illustration from my latest Being column for Uppercase Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Inyeon. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Creating joy. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Creating joy. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Creating joy. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Still tiny, a small comic about the large joy in tiny things.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Creating joy. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>My new 2024 calendar, still in its plastic wrap, lest I spill something on it before the calendar year turns.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A baby sister's tiny feet. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A baby sister's tiny feet. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A baby sister's tiny feet. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A baby sister's tiny feet. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Go Your Own Way - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Go Your Own Way - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A spread from Go Your Own Way</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The way it is. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The way it is. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Better together. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Seven Presidents Park, the New Jersey horizon I grew up on.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Girl and sitar, in the latest issue of Uppercase Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Should I be doing more? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A paint palette and accompanying essay from How it Feels to Find Yourself</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: It's publication day! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: It's publication day! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: It's publication day! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The various sunrises I captured from our Nashville farm, while writing before the baby (and the world) woke.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Early mornings with N on the farm, after I’d spend a few hours writing while she slept.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The bound dummy book for my MFA Thesis project, When the Ceiling Becomes the Sky.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A sketch of me and baby Frida in the hospital.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Preserving the humanity in our work. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The final essay from my upcoming book, How it Feels to Find Yourself</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A simple photograph - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>On my desk this week: a few in-progress illustrations for my thesis project.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Painting elegy/a crow/Ba, my first accordion book and illustrated poem</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The beginning of my process: thumbnail sketches about a nebulous story.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>I created several more sets of thumbnails before a direction became clear.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A final, digital sketch, and more experiments in color—which I generally use to create mood, atmosphere, and emotion.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The final painting on my desk…need a bigger desk!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Behind the craft #1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>One of the panels from elegy/a crow/Ba, my 8-page illustrated poem, now available as a hand-assembled accordion book</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The cover of my upcoming book of essays, How it Feels to Find Yourself!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: How it Feels to Find Yourself - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Maja, gouache and colored pencil on 16”x20” Arches paper. Currently on view at the Washington University Graduate Center</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Time is strange - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A glimpse of Maja, the painting I’ve spent my mornings working on.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: It might have been otherwise. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: It might have been otherwise. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A paint palette from my forthcoming book, How it Feels to Find Yourself</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The gaps of life. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The gaps of life. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The gaps of life.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: The gaps of life.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: We must supply our own light. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: We must supply our own light. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A recent screenprint with gold leaf applied by hand, 18”x24” on Arches paper</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Listening to yourself. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Listening to yourself. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>from Listening to Yourself for Issue 56 of UPPERCASE Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Running into a new year. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Running into a new year. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A glimpse of the art from “Elegy/A Crow/Ba”, an illustrated poem (forthcoming)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: How I give my thanks. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: How I give my thanks. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>From Notes on Inspiration for Issue 55 of Uppercase Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Confronting your inner critic. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Confronting your inner critic. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>From The Worst Boss I've Ever Had, a comic about confronting your inner critic.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Together at last. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: Together at last. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>From Three Shooting Stars, a tiny comic about the life of an artist.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A Simple Hello. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Dear Somebody: A Simple Hello. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A page from my sketchbook: Lisle Sur Tarn, France – reimagined with N</image:caption>
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