I recently had a good experience in which a stranger contacted me about a picture that he found on my blog. Just a very simple picture - I don't remember any reason for drawing it.

He wanted to use it on his newsletter - to represent a girl who has an advice column there.

I told him how much to send me - just a few dollars. He sent me the money, and he took it from my blog.

I wanted to write about him because I hear so often that people will rip you off, that you gotta be careful, that you gotta protect yourself. True, you gotta protect yourself - but that's from the FEW bad people. Most people are upright. And most of the people that I know want to be upright. And I like to think that I'm a good one too. It's important to point out that most people choose to be good.

Chalk it up to another experience of dealing with an honest person.

Check out this guy's newsletter. I don't know how to put links onto this blog, but you can cut and paste it into your address bar: http://www.clevelandwomen.com/times/rachel-main.htm Some upright people - I think you have a chance of getting advice on how to be upright in Rachael's column.

I'm apparently in a good mood right now. It's easy to be pleasant when you're treated well. Treating each other right - that could be the way to surround yourself with pleasant people.

I got it. Caricaturing front-view dogs. It just came to me last night. I have one of them here that I can scan for you. There might me more in the car - If I find them, maybe I'll post them some other time.

Artists. I recently saw Al Lopez, a California Caricaturist who specializes in Pin-Ups. Finally got him to draw this picture of me. So Cute!

It's unusual for me to be wearing a big t-shirt, but I'm glad I did this time. I was wearing a souvenier that I had bought on the street in NYC. Now that Al included that in this picture, I guess I can dub myself Ms New York? Smile.

One of these days I'm going to draw a picture that shows how charming he is. Meanwhile, all I did was to focus on expanding 3-D forms with just line when I was drawing him. It's just what I was into that day:

I went to a 6-year old's party in NJ today. I was having an upright time with a helpful 6-year-old who seemed so mature. Surprised me when she reminded me that she couldn't read yet - She's working on it, and can spell her big name already: Stephanie.

Here's the picture that Stephanie drew of me. So you're probably wondering - who am I really? I am too. Is Stephanie right? Is Al right? Some other Artist perhaps? All I know is that I'm having fun and meeting wonderful people.

Reminder to Self: There are no Solutions - Only Choices.