Tag : work

From the time I learned to read I’ve been enamored of the written word. As a child I devoured books, and actually I still do. As early as elementary school I had a desire to write as well. My early efforts were focused on short stories and poetry. In a high school creative writing class, […]

I have recently been hired as the Visual Arts blogger covering Portland, Oregon for the website ArtsAmerica.org. See my first blog post at: http://artsamerica.org/blog/genre/art-museums/portlandia-%e2%80%93-existing-in-obscurity/#anchor

Yesterday afternoon I felt honest-to-God joy. It’s been awhile. Making an abrupt transition from a lifetime of full-time work for others to being self-employed left me feeling a bit unsettled. I’m doing what I want to do, but still dealing with angst about not bringing home a larger paycheck and worrying about all the “what […]

Time flies, and the older you are, the faster it seems to go. The past decade seems to have passed in a blur, like landscape viewed through the window of a speeding train. This sense of time passing too quickly, the realization that the years left to me are finite and dwindling, contributed to my […]