jessikatz

There is a grave site in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where they had paved a road over what they now believe to be the grave site of colonial slaves.

I was shocked when I learned about it. Didn't realize it has happened throughout the US and in Florida as well. I'm glad you are writing about Zion.

It is a thing. Kids are often born with the drugs in their system if the mom is using during certain stages of the pregnancy. (I think it also depends on how much the mother was using and the drug). As OP mentioned in an earlier comment, the baby goes through withdrawl in the hospital before it is released.

I think it can in some cases. What a mother consumes can affect the baby in different ways. For example, if a mother consumes alchohol on a regular basis during pregnancy, it can affect brain development and other things in the baby. I'm not totally sure what impact drugs have on fetal development that would show up after birth. You would need to ask the OP or do some research. There are a lot of things though that a mother has to be aware of and not consume during pregnancy.

Do you work from your imagination, use reference materials, such as photos, or work from life and draw what is around you?

I find it difficult to draw in public and draw what is around me as my observing what is around me draws attention, which makes me uncomfortable. Do people approach you and ask what you are doing when you sketch in public? Any awkward encounters?

How do you get over a creative block? When I was in art school 15 years ago, I was charged with creativity and ideas about what I wanted to draw and sculpt. Now, the ideas don't flow like that. Instead, my mind focuses on work, bills, cleaning the house, errands, cooking, working out to stay healthy, etc. So many things seem to be "in the way" of my creativity. How do you stay creating when the obligations of day-to-day life call?