Happy New Year! (May it be better than last year. Please, God. Amen.)

• A doodle diary helps a man deal with the loss of his wife.
• Gorgeous zentangles.
• Encouragement from strangers.
• Extraordinarily beautiful cats.
• I love this story about a woman who put together an art class for her neighbors’ children.
• A quilter grows in her craft.
• Paper cranes taken to the next level.
• Whoa! I didn’t even know this existed! ChromeMusicLab. You gotta show your kids. Fun for grownups, too.
• Fabulous children’s book illustrators.
• For the children’s writers: magazine markets for children’s stories.
• A forgotten genius, the Michelangelo of the 20^th century.
• For the birds.