Right Under Your Nose

I am always amazed to hear someone say, "That would be the last place I would have looked" when describing finding a lost item. Of course it would because by then it would have been found. I'd hope you'd stop looking after that...wouldn't you?

And what is more amazing than that is losing something in plain sight. I do this often. More often than seeing something that is not there, I don't see something that is. Like the toy that I just tripped over on the way to the computer to type this. As a cartoonist with children, I am constant looking for something. Mostly my pens and pencils. And being the smallest yet most important thing for my world (the pens), I tend to look too hard for them, not seeing them right under my nose and yelling at my kids (the other smallest, most important things for my world) because of it.

I should be glad my children like to draw "cartoons" like Dad does. They just don't like to use their crayons. I guess they are starting early on the "greener on the other side" thing. I have to admit it though, even MY indecipherable scribbles look better in pen too.

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