I was out in the garden, you know, in between carving my ‘me tiki’ and working on the art for the new children’s book… and I was baking an apple in the oven for my daughter Mollie, who was ignoring the oven timer… and… well… I figured that thick leather gloves would work pretty well… and… uh… they didn’t.

This life lesson brought to you by: Pain receptors! The part of your brain that let’s you know you did something really stupid.