This is a series of tales involving my 1991 Ford E-350 Econoline van named Big Bertha and provocations including but not limited to luck, karma, oversights and auto mechanics.
Read MoreIn real life, the mic drop doesn’t work. It’s counterproductive. If I spend my time coming up with a show-stopping statement while you do the same, we’re not having a conversation. We’re likely not even on the same topic. And nothing, literally nothing, will happen after we’ve dropped our implicit mics except that our means of communicating lie broken in discarded heaps.
Read MoreTwo thousand fifteen was the year of My Big Step. It’s the year I left an employer to which I was patriotically loyal and a career field that defined my entire adult life in order to do something… else.
Read MoreThis story was originally published on the Downtown Arlington website on November 17, 2015. I’m keeping it in my Moodboard to remind myself how far I’ve come as an artist and a writer. It’s also a testament to my undying gratitude for those people who really truly believed me when I said I’d been an artist all along.
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