Pat Kelley

Karma Carriers is where creativity and purpose intertwine. As incurable artists hubby and I spend sketching with pen and colored pencil, sculpting paper mache', making clay molds for creatures and characters both real and imagined (mostly imagined) and acrylic paints.

My own journey began with a quest for deeper meaning to understand chaotic situations, a desire to belong to something greater than myself, and calling to return to the lush, green forests of the Great Pacific Northwest of my early childhood. Once immersed in this serene, calming environment; clean ocean air and tranquil tree-lined inspiration, my mind became free to explore and express uninterrupted creativity.

Except for the dogs, and the cats, and oh yes, hubby who all seem dependent upon my culinary skill and dishwasher filling capability. That's about all I'm good for around here, except the bills. I get to do the finances. He does everything, he loves it here, I never complain, which leads me back to being free to explore and express uninterrupted creativity.

How the Hello Bigfoot Color book came about. I had spent several months painting images of Witches & Kitten familiars for a Halloween project with canvas and acrylics. The images are fairly humorous for the most part illustrated from the cat's point of view getting dragged around everywhere. Eventually Bigfoot and baby bigfeet got into the paintings which evolved into wood cuttings and a couple of cool coloring books.

Fond memories of youthful family camping 70 years ago, parents and family in happier days, and sasquatch totem pole carvings. I had to take the plunge - simply to irresistible to ignore, even as a skeptic I enjoy Ancient Alien Astronauts, so why not enjoy the cryptids.

Bigfoot is everywhere along the Pacific coast, portrayed, in billboards, yard statues, tee shirts as a ferocious, lumbering beast

I submit that Bigfoot is a protector of his community and keeps it away from prying human eyes. Hello Bigfoot Colorbook takes us inside that hidden community to discover bigfoot as an important figure within a loving family unit, who are out and about on vacation.

Critical Bigfoot Theory covers critical thinking using a visual step-by-step decision-grid format that helps explain how decisions come about using the 5 W's. The who, what, when, where, why and sometimes how approach.

Critical Bigfoot Theory describes types of resources to help the reader research topics, gives suggestions as to what to watch out for in pseudoscience claims, what questions to ask, how to process memory and incorporate new data into the decision-making process.

I think any educator will find Critical Bigfoot Theory useful as a tool in the cabinet of Critical Thought.