Jay Perry

I’ve been thinking a lot about road safety lately.

The other night I listened to Ezra Klein’s interview with Hannah Ritchie on his podcast.

On Monday this week I went and broke my ankle.

I was fascinated by this post by Zach Seward, a transcription of a talk he gave at this year's SXSW.

In our area, near Baltimore, we had 88% coverage of the eclipse.

A few more photos from our trip to the mouth of the Potomac at the Chesapeake Bay.

Apologies to everyone who might be following this site on RSS; I realized yesterday that my feeds have been broken for awhile.

I was really moved by this Out There podcast episode: Newt Schottelkotte narrates a personal essay about growing up in Appalachia, coming out as nonbinary, and trying to reconcile their identity with their perception of their home.

We’re taking a short vacation this week.

I finished a new notebook I started last week.

Good Lord, it’s been a busy couple months.

I took a day off last week and decided to try riding my bike out to a park near Laurel, Maryland called Oxbow Lake.

We got a pretty big snowstorm this week.

I took another swing at painting the moonflowers in our back yard.

Really neat story: one night in 1953 Charlie Parker and his band were having a Very Bad Night.

Lachlan Morton’s bicycle ride down the 2,670-mile Tour Divide route was amazing and I loved this documentary about it.

Really enjoyed this piece by bicycle framebuilder Rob English on the 'velomobiles' he uses for his commute.

Sometimes I read a word I haven’t seen before, and it’s not obvious how to pronounce it from the way it’s spelled.

I went for a run yesterday on a favorite trail through the woods.

For some reason, I've always imagined the yearly calendar as a circle.

I went home a few weekends ago to visit my parents.

A long time ago I visited South India.

I’ve gotten in the habit of making time-lapse videos as I work on new drawings.

A timelapse of another element in my bat house illustration — the trees in the background, in black ink.

I use a series of buckets to process the rinse-water I use for painting and drawing.

I filled up my old notebook (RIP, old friend) and it was time to make a new one.

In which my daughter tragically succumbs to dehydration while alone, and neglected, in the bath.

I'm drawing the bat house in my back yard, an illustration for a new essay.

I re-read Pride and Prejudice last week.

Sometimes it's the small victories.

The New York Times ran a nice profile of Sean Paul that took me straight back to 2002.

I finally got around to varnishing a few of my larger paintings.

Sometimes one good blog leads to another.

I’m working on another illustration of my bat house for a new essay.

Every year I accompany my in-laws on their pilgrimage to Ocean City, Maryland.

I just finished 'Hands of Time' by Rebecca Struthers and really, really enjoyed it.

An embarrassingly short time ago, I realized that the band I’d been calling ‘Hauling Oats’ was actually named ‘Hall & Oates’.

A lovely moment this morning: I’m out on a run, heading home.

A thing I would really like to see in the world: a public library that serves craft beer.

We went to visit some old friends a couple weekends ago.

For the past month or so, I’ve caught myself wanting to kind of drop out of the world for a little bit.

I took a weekend trip to a cabin in West Virginia a while ago.

'The Golden Glow', by Benjamin Flouw, has become one of my all-time favorite picture books.

I have been brought low by either a cold or allergies.

I’m about halfway through Ed Yong’s 'An Immense World' and it’s quickly becoming one of my favorite nonfiction books I’ve read this year.

I was really sad to read the other day that we lost Ahmad Jamal.

I decided to try an experiment to see how well my favorite archival inks resist fading in direct sunlight.

I went for a short hike with my daughter a few weeks back, on a day when school was closed.

Sometimes parenthood feels like a very odd inversion of my childhood.

When my mind keeps drifting or a problem seems intractable, I’ve learned that sometimes the best thing to do is to get up and walk away.