Thanks for the Happy Birthday wishes!

So yeah, I've officially existed for a quarter of a century! Thanks for all the well wishes today!

I'm happy to report that I'm having fun developing my teaching skills, planning lessons and developing my own art curriculum, even if that means putting all my comic projects on hold for a bit while I adjust to teaching four art classes.

There are some projects you can sacrifice quality and rush in terms of meeting deadlines, but I think my both writing and artwork will be all the more richer with time, whether I am actively working on them or just letting ideas simmer in the back of my head.

Once in a while, I do touch base with Xei, Vera, Zy and Raven to see how everyone's doing in my absence. It's just kind of crazy to think about how we all grew up together this past decade and sort of went our separate ways. Despite being physically older than me when I met him, Xei was rather emotionally immature and he's grown a lot more in that domain since embracing parenthood (in contrast to the whole not-raising-Zy thing). Meanwhile, Zy has found he's often bossed around as the minority male in the house (the twins are like little Raven clones sometimes). Granted, that's not exactly new to him since his older sister Ria was quite bossy. And still is bossy. Ha ha. She gets it from her mother.

Anyway, I hope you're following me on Tapastic because I really haven't been able to keep up the manual uploading here on DA for now.