As the Kickstarter campaign for Potato Nose: 1977 enters its final hours, I find myself doing the classic artist’s hustle: sharing, posting, reminding, and hoping I’m not annoying everyone in the process. It can feel uncomfortably narcissistic, especially when the project is based on my own teenage diary. But this campaign was never launched because…
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Love Letter to M. #potatonose
M. and I shortly before I moved back to Canada: Potato Nose: 1977, the prologue (and eventual graphic novel) will be a love letter to M. and our strange intense mystical world. It will also be an apology to her. I let her down. I would love to create this project for her. And for…
“Potato Nose gets frightfully romantic…”
My new Kickstarter Campaign is now live and runs Oct 24 – Nov 20, 2025!!! Potato Nose: 1977, the graphic novel A tragicomic memoir of pubescent anxiety and ecstatic delusion “If you read someone else’s diary, you get what you deserve.” ― David Sedaris It was a shock to the system for me to move…
My first diary…
My first diary… a gift on my 6th birthday on April 13, 1968 in Grums, Sweden. I remember feeling so secretive when I sketched and wrote in the pages. On October 31, 1968, we moved to Canada. I always marked my own work. “Rotten day for the girl today. Lucky lucky girl’s day. ho ho…
Protected: Potato Nose Diaries (1977): Instalment 5- They don’t know what it is.
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Happy birthday, Frida.
I am celebrating Frida Kahlo‘s birthday! Although her birth certificate says she was born on July 6, 1907, Frida Kahlo told people her date of birth was July 7, 1910. She allegedly did so not to seem younger but simply because she loved her home country, according to The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo filmmaker…
My ugliness, my solitude, my experiences have built a protective wall
Diary entry April 17, 2017 Once I have reached my energy limit- my body/mind/spirit experiences a type of fatigue migraine– it comes on when I finally relax and have a day to stop- and seemingly ALL threatens to stop. My eyes can’t stay open in the tub, my heart feels tender, my to-do list seems…
Protected: Snippets from my 1977 Diary, Part 8 August (age 15): Maud, moving to Canada
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Protected: Snippets from my 1977 Diary, Part 7 July (age 15): Summer, potato nose
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Protected: Snippets from my 1977 Diary, Part 6 June (age 15): Graduation
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Protected: Snippets from my 1977 Diary, Part 5 May (age 15): Paris
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Protected: Snippets from my 1977 Diary, Part 4 April (age 15) The Audition
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Protected: Snippets from my 1977 Diary, Part 3 March (age 14) #puberty
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Protected: Snippets from my 1977 Diary, Part 2 February (age 14) #innocence
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Protected: Snippets from my 1977 Diary, Part 1 January (age 14)
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Protected: Which diary entries would you like me to share with you first? Painful adolescence (1977) or Mad Housewife (1991)?
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Protected: My Diary, 1977
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