Paul Gadzikowski

Reflecting on turning fifty eight today I realize I'm very, very lucky.

I'm white, male, cis, het, baby boomer - I tip the privileged end of almost every scale, and I'm learning to use that for those who don't have it. It's a process.

The dead spouse thing sucks and will never stop sucking but we both always new that I could survive her loss better. I have two grown stepkids whom we appear to have taught to live their lives their way.

Mostly, I have a job that taps just enough creative energy to keep from being prohibitively tedious while failing to keep me from drawing the cartoons I always wanted to draw, and (at least for the immediate future, still) distributing my cartoons all over the world and spending the balance of my off hours hobnobbing with other fans of the things I draw my cartoons about.