On December 9th at 6:51 am, our son Hudson Joseph Meade was born. Being pregnant wasn’t  a glow-y, fun experience for me, so I kept it off the blog radar in order to curb my urge to complain. Now that he’s here, I’m filled with a deep sense of joy and I wanted to share […]

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Just wanted to share just a few of my paintings for the upcoming group show at the Brooklyn Collective. Things here have been crazy with balancing illustration deadlines and painting for this show. There is so much to share, I don’t know where to start. Working on this Brooklyn series late at night, between deadlines […]

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We survived Hurricane Irene over the weekend and spent most of it indoors working with an occasional netflix movie. It was kind of crazy when the subways shut down, shops closed early and the busy streets were empty by Saturday evening. Something about being forced to stay in with emergency supplies in anticipation of the […]

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Really can’t believe it’s already August! It’s been a real scorcher here in New York but I have to admit it’s a nice change from the mostly foggy summers in San Francisco. Except when it was over 100 degrees a couple weeks ago and our air conditioner died. For a few days I would have […]

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Plugging away over here on projects, promos and  settling into our new life in New York. So much has happened in the last couple months there have been moments that have been overwhelming.  Trying to take everything in stride and trust that things will settle down soon. We love our new place and the neighborhood […]

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We moved into our new place last weekend after spending a month living in my in-laws rental house in Long Island. It’s nice to have a place to call home and the new neighborhood is all we could have hoped for. Trees are finally getting green and flowers are blooming everywhere. It seems like a […]

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Stars will shine at the sight of you
Ocean waves will rumble from the sound of you
Trees will clear a path for the presence of you
Flowers will bow to the greatness of you
And all the world is enhanced by you…still

—Siobhan Kern
Yukiko passed away on March 14th after a eight month struggle with cancer. She was surrounded […]

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