“Stay Tuned! BIG Announcement coming!!!” I’ve always fantasized about having a reason to share a post like that. That I would have something creative and special to share with people who cared. But I never did… because I drank…

Back then, I was terrified of the possibility of secondary and tertiary FB relationships. Terrified that someone who knew someone that I knew, might somehow make their way to me and want to be my FB friend. Yeah, I just said that out loud.

“I’ve had to force myself into doing things this New Year that I usually love and look forward to during that precious week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.”

“Drinking was my main activity and the first drink of the day signaled the end to productivity for that day. This schedule left me starting a lot of creative projects and quitting just about all of them.”

This is the story of how I became an artist during the great pandemic of 2020. And it’s long-winded but I feel, necessarily so.

Like with so many other things in my life, fear has kept me from stepping into my own voice sooner.More specifically, the fear of other people’s judgement of me when I offer a more complete picture of who I am.