I can remember one late afternoon, I was eating my after school bowl of Cheerios, thumbing through the Vermont Country Store Catalog on the kitchen table. "Who draws all these random, hokey products? I wondered. It just goes to show you how perspectives change.

I especially loved designing covers, but I also enjoyed working for hours on a tiny detailed pencil drawing of a girdle or a toe pad. It was very meditative, and the money was good.