He watched from across the room, a tight knot of sorrow growing in his belly. Two little girls, out for dinner with their parents, were each and individually playing a game on the screen of a parent’s computer. No drawing together in a spill of salt, no building a house together with sugar packets, no playing forbidden games together under the table. In fact no together at all.
~ Even after 25 years in Truckee, Pam McAdoo sometimes misses the farmland outside New York City where she was raised. The arts are her passion, from drawing, painting, printmaking, and bookarts, to music, dance, and architecture. With In The Moment, she pays homage to San Francisco Chronicle illustrator Paul Madonna, whose artful synthesis of text and reportage illustration has inspired her to add words to her visual records of North Tahoe and Truckee – conversations overheard or thoughts that arise in the moment when she’s drawing.
