🎃🎃🎃 When I was asked to illustrate Mouse Tales several years ago, I didn’t expect the witch in Hansel and Gretel to challenge me so much. It’s hard to illustrate a witch without falling into old stereotypes. In the illustrations that follow, I explain my thoughts behind the drawings -see for yourself if you think I succeeded! 😱 Dear Friends, Walking through the Halloween aisle recently, this really hit home. Surrounded by life-sized witch figures, I suddenly realized what

Dear Friends, I struggled with writing this newsletter, as I’ve been studying for my energy medicine practitioner exams (two more to...

'Us' and 'Them.' There is a global resurgence of an old 'monster': Prejudice. This Hans Holbein woodcut from the 1500s reflects a time when plague threatened survival—yet today, racism and prejudice remain even more devastating to humanity and our shared future. Dear Friends, I’ve written a lot about Unity in Diversity, and how, as a Baha’i, my faith shapes my belief that humanity is ONE. When I visit schools to share my picture book, The Nightingale’s Song, I always tell the

Dear Friends, The Great & the Small - Part Two In 2022 I was given the chance to revise my illustrated young adult novel, The Great & the...