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I am a professional reminder-er and permission granter who moonlights as an artist, author, professional speaker, and publisher of The Adultitis Fighter, which helps people create lives filled with adventure, meaning, and joy. I enjoy Star Wars, soft t-shirts, and brand new tubes of paint. My wife Kim and I homeschool our three weird kids and live in Wisconsin, where we eat way too many cheese curds.
View online • Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! Shenanigating Since 2000 | 2026 Issue #27 🏆 Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where we're down to the final days to join The Collector Club as a Founding Collector and receive the inaugural print! I'm not sure which is the bigger sell - fun mail every month or new artwork every month. Put them together & I'm sold. :) —Mary Beth Updike Twenty-five years ago, before kids, when Kim and I were living on Hamburger Helper and...
View online • Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! Shenanigating Since 2000 | 2026 Issue #26 🚜 Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where I am still recovering from the Shine On-athon. (Should we attempt that again?) Thanks to everyone who showed up and said hi! I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Adults are ruining everything. Exhibit A is the art of collecting. Take baseball cards. At the risk of sounding like Grandpa Simpson, when I was a kid, packs cost fifty cents...
View online • Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! Shenanigating Since 2000 | 2026 Issue #25 🖍️ Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where I am happy to present a new episode of Echo Base Dispatch—a brief transmission from my studio overlooking Lake Michigan—where I share what I’m working on, what I’m wrestling with, and the lessons I’m learning along the way. (Click the video above to watch it, or keep reading!) I love a fresh box of new crayons. For one, the smell is a time...