Back at the end of 2008, I declared 2009 the Year of Non Suck*. I still don’t have my word or intentions for 2010, but I’ll post as soon as I have them. *This is a lesson in asking for what you want, instead of just asking for what you don’t want. 2009 did not [...]
Today, I’m going to write a very, very personal ad. It’s a little bit of a desperate personal ad. I’d almost classify this as a prayer, or maybe one of those wishes that you hope if you wish really really hard, it’ll come true. This is a personal ad to my art. More specifically, to [...]
Oh my god, I think my brain is going to implode. Between Christmas and all the web design work I took on (yay monies! boo overwhelm!), I feel like I wake up every day, get absolutely nothing accomplished in a 12 hour period that goes by in the blink of an eye and then I [...]
It’s Jesse’s 21st birthday today. I mention Jesse occasionally on here, but I don’t talk about him in any great depth. There are some parts of my life that I do try to keep private. Today though, I’d just like to share how proud I am to be with him, and what a really great [...]
I’ve been awake since 3am, my mind churning. Every single cell in my body is yelling “Stop! Turn around! Go back!” On November 20th, I finished my job at the smoothie bar and health food store. I quit with the intention of following my passion, my art. Do you know how much art I’ve done [...]
I’ve been working a lot with my money issues lately. I’ve suddenly got more money that I’ve ever had before so yay. But instead of fixing my money problems, it’s actually just shining a brighter light on all the ways me and money don’t get along. I want to fix that before I do something [...]
Actually falling in love again, to be exact. I’m not sure if this happens to other artists, but do you ever create something, finish it and then instantly hate it? Because the finished product looks absolutely nothing like the vision you had in your head? Yeah, this painting was one of those for me: I [...]
I’ve finally figured it out. I’ve finally figured out why the word “goal” makes me itch and why attempting to set goals makes me want to crawl back under the covers. First, a bit of background. Me and goals have been struggling for a while. I’d set goals half heartedly, and then watch myself fail [...]
I haven’t been posting here as much lately. First there was the whole “Oh my god, please don’t look at me” thing. And while I was feeling vulnerable and my defenses were down, Bob snuck in. Have you met Bob? Some of you have. You probably have your own Bob. Bob is the voice of [...]
I’ll be honest – I’m still finding putting myself out there to be surprisingly hard. I’ve lost my total adoration for Twitter. I don’t want to write on here. Quite frankly, I still want to hide under my bed. This whole being seen thing. Ughh. And this whole potentially being misunderstood and people throwing shoes [...]
