From the monthly archives:

April 2005

An Exception to Every Rule

by Jason 04.29.2005 Jason's Random Musings

Normally, having your artwork defaced by liquified rice is not a good thing. Except in this case…

Bring on the peas and yams.

With the pending release of my new book, Escape Adulthood: 8 Secrets from Childhood for the Streessed-Out Grown-Up, I’ve been working on developing some new talks for “grown-ups” based on the content of the book. There are five:
•Be Mine: Winning The Hearts of Your Customers
•The Wisdom of Curious George: Improving Yourself, Your Team, and Your [...]

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Shirts for Sale

by Jason 04.28.2005 Kim & Jason News

We only have 16 t-shirts left from our recently concluded second annual Kim & Jason Benefit for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. They are sure to be a collectible phenomenon destined to command thousands on eBay. Or they will just be cool t-shirts commemorating a fun event. If you weren’t there and want to pretend like you [...]

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An Extraordinary Wish

by Jason 04.21.2005 Maintain Perspective

How cool is this: The Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Wisconsin has a wish child with an extraordinary wish. He wishes to train and participate in a large charitable bike ride to raise money for cancer research so other children do not have to go through what he has.

David will be raising funds for the Lance Armstrong [...]

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Letters to the Editor

by Jason 04.20.2005 Jason's Random Musings

Earlier this year, I had the distinct privilege of putting on a 3-day cartooning workshop for the fourth and fifth graders at Huegel Elementary here in Madison. I had fun, the kids had fun, and I’m pretty sure the teachers did, too. One of the coolest things that happened after my visit is that the [...]

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The New Black

by Jason 04.19.2005 Kim & Jason News

I just couldn’t take it anymore.
I switched the background of Kimandjason.com several weeks ago from a “lunch bag brown” kraft color to a vibrant red. I did this because in a recent poll we conducted involving new visitors to the web site, many of them mentioned that the background was too drab. Eventually, the comments [...]

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What Matters

by Jason 04.17.2005 Delight in the Little Things

“Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in the little things.”
- Charles Simmons

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The Honesty of Children

by Jason 04.17.2005 Be Honest

The other day, a little girl in Kim’s kindergarten class commented to one of the teacher’s aides, “You look really pretty today.”
Then she added, “But I did just get done spinning around and I am pretty dizzy.”
Although not always tactful, the honesty of children is always a breath of fresh air.

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