I've been extremely lucky to have so many mentors, teachers, oddballs and eccentrics see something in me and give me a shot at something. They've bought me a lunch, they've shared their life advice. They took me under their wings. They showed me how you can live free and make art out of life. As a result I have had the good fortune to live a professional life that has carved a windy and off-the-beaten-path kind of path.

 

I've been a journalist and a chef, an interior designer, a business owner, a nonprofit program manager, a gallerist and a baker. I helped run a small music label. I worked on a "major motion picture". I was the executive assistant to one of the co-founders of a "major news network". I've worked on Federal grant programs. I've bagged groceries and walked beans, walked dogs, detassled corn. I've had a ridiculous number of retail jobs and waited countless tables. I've mixed drinks. I worked at a laundry mat one summer and a Let's Paint Pottery the next. 

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I have never known what I want to be when I grow up. Unfortunately, I have never had a plan. I have made it all up as I go. I have always envied all of those folks that just knew what they wanted to be from such an early age.

 

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