Category Archives: Personal
Confession time. I am bad – like, really bad – at promoting myself. When I was a kid, I always wanted to sit alone, make a cool drawing or build something with Lego, and then immediately hide my creation away. I’d stow the drawings. I’d take apart my Lego builds. If an adult saw what…
Well, it appears that my pandemic sabbatical has ended. Visitors are returning, sessions are happening, and my daughter is going to Kindergarten in a classroom – at least for the time being. The past year and a half has been something incredible, in the sense that if I travelled back in time, to tell my…
I really have to say that 2018 was… a journey. On the personal front it was so stressful, and hard, and just weird, for reasons I’ll get into in the future (it kind of deserves its own write-up). Needless to say that being a stay at home parent and self-employed artist can be the most potent combination…
What a year! Whew! 2016 was a whirlwind of amazing sessions, great people, challenges that weighed me down, and lessons that lifted me up. It was probably the hardest and most stressful year I’ve ever had, but also my most successful, and every bit of that success was motivated by the biggest thing to happen to me…
BEGIN NUTSHELL — Visited an uninhabited island. Waves so big had to jump off the boat and swim the cargo in. What an experience. Got engaged!! Wedding planning. Ate a Jack in the Box Muchie Meal. Fiance moved to the Big Island! Haven’t had a Munchie Meal since. 14 sessions over the Summer. Too much…