W: *gasp* We season with salt and grace in this house!
True Story
A blog for my thoughts that come out as comics
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Season with Grace and Salt
W: *gasp* We season with salt and grace in this house!
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Leaving Leaves
Happy Birthday to my grandma and two of my nieces!
Oh, the English language. Those leaves are leaving, as they do. Is this a comic from the wrong season? Nope, my kids have been collecting leaves from the edges of our yard and piling them on the patio, only for the wind to clear them away.
Text:
R: Nooooo - the wind is blowing away our pile!!!
L: That is the way of leaves - they leave.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Tea Mail
I've been getting loose leaf tea from Plum Deluxe and they have an excellent selection and quality of teas. My daughter's confusion over getting tea in the mail was quite cute and she was laughing quite a bit, picturing a mug of tea in the mailbox.
Text:
L: *sees notification on phone* Let's get the mail because my tea has arrived.
R: You have a cup of tea in the mailbox?!?!
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Stuck Stick
Happy Mother's Day! You never know what you'll need to tell your kids next. Did not think I'd be instructing my two-year-old to not uproot trees, yet here we are. He was trying with all his might to get that stick.
Text:
O: Stick STUCK!!!
L: That's a baby tree, buddy. Don't uproot the sapling.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Bingo Card Full
"My 2025 bingo card is full and they're still calling numbers left and right" --@thisone0verhere
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Kids Crafts
You finish the setup for one craft and they're asking for another but you still need to do the cleanup for the last and all the prep work for the next. And they just want to add the googly eyes, which is fair.
Text:
Kids crafts would be so much easier if kids were not involved.
*parent stressing while children use craft supplies with wild abandon*
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Happy Star Wars Day
Happy Star Wars Day! "May the Fourth be with you"
Here are some comics from previous years, namely 2017 and 2022. I was experimenting with digital creation in 2017 - using the basic shapes and typing rather than just free-handing it all. Fun fact: my SW comics are a mix of Star Wars and Snow White ones - I should really name them differently to keep them distinct.
https://comics.comicaltruestory.com/2017/03/heavysabers.html
https://comics.comicaltruestory.com/2017/04/lifesavers-vs-lightsabers.html
https://comics.comicaltruestory.com/2022/09/grievous-mistake.html
Thursday, May 1, 2025
One Small Step for Man
I do pay attention to the sermon, but I also doodle. You should listen to the sermon - it's on SermonAudio under Pastor Sung Cho at Faith Bible Church.
Explanation: Some astronauts can take a personal item with them to space (Captain Chris Hadfield brought his guitar and recorded "Space Oddity" on the ISS) so I figured an astronaut could take a dinosaur footprint maker and leave some amazing footprints on whatever surface they explore.
Text:
Inset image of dinosaur tracks next to astronaut footprints.
A1: I thought your personal item was odd, but it's genius!
A2: *holding a stick with a dinosaur footprint on the base end*
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Gnaming a Gnome
Sometimes I come up with more than one way to do a comic and I can't pick which version I like better so here are both and you can decide. This set has a bit of Shakespeare in it.
Explanation: "Gnome" and "Romeo" can be combined to make "Gnomeo" which is the name of a gnome in a cartoon version of Romeo and Juliet. Paris is the name of a character in Romeo and Juliet (he's supposed to marry Juliet). Fun fact: I learned about Paris from Twilight rather than R&J, which shows you can learn things from unexpected sources.
Text:
A: Why did you name your gnome Paris?
L: "Gnomeo" seemed too on the gnose.
A: What's in a gname, anyway?
Alternate ending:
A: It's an excellent gname.
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Recipe Options
Happy Birthday to my Robin! She likes looking at recipe videos on my phone and deciding if we can make it or not. The latest one we made is dandelion flatbread and it was quite tasty! The recipe in this comic was some fluffy dessert with all sorts of dairy in it - I have finally come to realize that with lactose intolerance, if I want to make a recipe then I only want to be subbing out one, max two ingredients for non-dairy versions. Otherwise, brace for failure.
Text:
*Looking at recipe videos on my phone*
R: We can make that!
L: We cannot because that is all dairy, and Mom can't eat lactose.
R: We can make it, and I'll eat it.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Riddle Up
Text:
M: What goes up but never down?
L: Cumulative -
M: Your age.
L: Yep, that.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Riddle Down
My husband was reading kid riddles to me and I was answering them in unexpected ways. Fun all around. My kids were confused but they are preschool/toddler aged so that's a bit young for word plays.
Text:
M: What goes down but never up?
L: My mood.
M: ... Rain.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
None Good
L: Are ya good?
O: No!
M: He is theologically sound.
O: No!
M: He needs a hermeneutics refresher.
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Revive a Baguette
True story, I didn't read/watch the Instagram post about how to revive a baguette. But I am fairly certain it did not involve an AED (automated external defibrillator, used to restart a person's heart).
Text:
A: I need an AED! *holding a long thin bread*
B: That's not how you revive a baguette.
A: How do you?
B: One weird trick that I didn't watch, so I don't know.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Coax a Fire
I forget when this idea was sparked :)
Explanation: "coaxing a fire" is when you gently prod and blow on a dying fire to get it to crackle back to life. "Coaxing" can also mean encouraging a person. I feel like it's a type of computer cable as well...
Text:
A: You can do it!
B: That's not how you coax a fire.