Time for another edition of The Early Works! I’m happy you liked my previous post with surreal and slightly pornographic cat drawings (made by my twisted childhood self). I am obviously an only child: I had a “Go-Go Gang” of stuffed animals piled into a wagon — and I imagined that they went on Kerouac-style road trips. Hollywood’s a hot destination, but why would I want to take trips “to Alberta” and “to see cattle”?

The gang took “fun v.a.c.a.t.i.o.n.s” by three means of transport: cat trailer, pop plane, and whiz car. (Can someone please invent one of these already??) Back then, I imagined I had a husband named “Twinkle the entertainer” and that our baby was a girl dog. Now, I have an earless kitty for a son and my husband is… no comment.

Nerd alert! I took Kumon, the Asian math program. And to make matters more embarrassing, I replicated the format of the daily homework… with questions about cat and mice.

I doodled everywhere — especially in Chinese restaurants. (In the 80s, we didn’t have Gameboys you know…) Here’s a “mirror drawing” remnant with images that belong in a mental institution.

Finally… my first cookbook wasn’t Cute Yummy Time (out October 6th… ahhh!) It was something I wrote on Post-It Notes in the early 90s. Wow, my spelling sucked; I spelled “chochocolate” like a stammerer!