For the past four years, I have been working around the clock, trying to dig out from underneath the workload I took on as the world became trapped beneath COVID. I was signed up to illustrate four picture books, the most I have ever had at one time. I was also up for tenure. Normally, all good things, but COVID buried us alive. We all went through it, so we all know what I am talking about. As I head into final art for the fourth and final book, as I finish crawling out from underneath the rock we were all trapped under, the air feels lighter, and the rain tastes sweeter than I remember.