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The Day of the Cross is celebrated on May 3rd by all construction workers in Mexico. This tradition includes the placement of a cross on the construction sites in order to secure blessings during the course of the construction. The colourfully decorated crosses which are carried in procession by the bricklayers and masons. A special mass asks for the protection of the workers on the job. Crews fasten a cross that is brightly decorated with crepe paper flowers and streamers onto the uppermost section of the building, continuing the tradition that began with the building of churches by the Spanish in the 1500’s.

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Special issue feature for 5280 Magazine. “Columbine 20 Years Later” Anxiety and depression are increasingly plaguing American adolescents. Understanding why may help reduce teen suicides–and mass shootings

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For Smithsonian Magazine “The Imp of the Perverse" Two centuries after his birth, Edgar Allan Poe has become our era’s premier storyteller.

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A feature for UCO Magazine about a weekend retreat for former fundamentalists that gives them the strength they need to rebuild their lives.

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Cover for The Washington Post - Health & Science. Two men and a Baby. A gay couple trying to create a family through a surrogate. #illustration #editorial illustration #gay surrogate #washington post 

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Last in the series for The Boston Globe Magazine on the maternal brain. “A surge of oxytocin at childbirth allows a woman quite literally to sync to her baby through a coordination of biology (synchronized brain responses and heart rates) and behaviour (matching responses in gaze, touch, and vocalizations).”

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Full page for the Boston Globe Magazine on the maternal brain by “In the newborn months, a mother’s interaction with her baby serves as further stimulus to link her brain quite tangibly to her baby’s.

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Cover for The Boston Globe Magazine on the wonder of the maternal brain by “Motherhood brings the most dramatic brain changes of a woman’s life.”

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NYT OpEd piece. A Day in the Life of a Lawyer at the Border. “Immigrant parents ask me when they’re going to see their children again. I don’t have an answer.”

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Meeting a Great Kiskadee in an Umbrella Tree.

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These 4 images were selected to appear in the 3x3 Illustration Annual 15.

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Legend is the great-tailed grackle “having no voice, stole its seven distinctive songs from the wise and knowing sea turtle.”

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Balcony pal.

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“Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.” Anthony Machado

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Mexican Street dogs are a weird concoction of various recognizable breeds. 

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"There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see." - Omar Khayyam

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“Death is a veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.” Percy Shelley