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Part 2. Greetings, Salutations, and Food (cards 13-24)

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The memories continue. Imagine walking into a card store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, near Lincoln Center, and seeing your cards on the racks. Flip one over and find that a sticker placed over the printed cost raised the price. I suppose that was the store’s way of making more money, but it didn’t help me any. I had a great time at the Trade Show at The Jacob Javits Center where I met the New Yorker cartoonist George Booth and got an autograph. One of my favorite cartoons.   Here is the second set of twelve cards. … Continue reading →

Part 1. Greetings, Salutations, and Food (cards 1-12)

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Let’s leave the present behind and travel back to the past to 1985 and 1986 when I was on the first of two teaching sabbaticals. It was the year I studied at The School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design, The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. I was hoping to start my own business and though the creative part was the biggest high of my life, the business part was a reality check. I studied entrepreneurship, business law, graphic design, greeting card design and wrote, designed (art, logos), copyrighted, trademarked and registered, and produced, one quarter … Continue reading →