I'm the mother of two daughters and I have two grandsons who are almost two and almost five years of age.
I was, for eleven years, what in those days was called, a commercial artist. We used no computers because there
were none. Everything going to print was created on illustration board using india ink, tech pens, ink compasses,
rubber cement, French curves, galley type (which had to be specked mathematically to fit, sent out to be printed
on paper,then cut apart and pasted up, sometimes, sentence by sentence or even word by word to fit a layout) and
ruby lithe that was cut by hand to create masks. All this was time consuming work which required good vision and
steady hands. We also drew a lot of our own illustrations. Sound like fun??? More stories of yesteryear to come.
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