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Summer has arrived in Alaska! It’s glorious and bright and everything Alaskans live for. The new season also brings about a change in routine with the kids being home all day. It always feels like a huge adjustment after 9 months of working home alone with both kids in school. If you didn’t know this about me already, I live by a routine. I thrive with a to-do list. But I also want to soak up every minute of summer adventures with the kids. I mean, that’s the whole point of

Having just been a guest speaker in the UAF Pen & Ink class, a handful of questions from the students were about pricing. Considering I encounter this a lot in other conversations with creatives and makers, it felt like a reasonable time to sit down and dive in. Take your time to digest this information and apply the formulas to your own practice. Return to this article as much as you need to. While everything in here is actionable, it's not meant to be adopted in one go. The