... not only had i already started to write my own fairy tales but i felt the need to try to illustrated them as well, and ... mud was my medium of choice! i say it started with mud pies because when school was out in the summer one of my favorite past times was making mud pies, and my father made me believe that i was the most creative mud pie maker who ever existed, because he'd stop and examine the ones i had lined up on the sidewalk, and those that he liked he'd pay me a nickle for!
but he was too smart to fall for that! he 