2010 Reflections p2.3 – The Snowy Epic Conclusion

This is a continuation of the story of my truck accident earlier this year. You can read part 2 here or start from the beginning here. When I left off, I had just hitchhiked through a rural Iowa town holding a bloody towel and was chain smoking in my hotel room wondering how I was going to get home. I woke up in the morning around 7 A.M. I immediately started trying to figure out how to get...

2010 Reflections p2.2 : People Look At You Weird When You Are Bloody

This is a continuation of the story of my truck accident earlier this year. You can read the lead up here. When I left off, my truck had just rolled twice on the freeway at 70 miles per hour, I was standing knee deep in snow, and really not excited about life at that point. As I stalked around trying to figure out what to do, a guardian angel coincidentally passed by – an ambulance stopped...

2010 Reflections p2.1 : Crashing Trucks for New Outlooks

This is the second installment in a series where I reflect upon the year in order to understand where I am and appreciate all that happened in the last twelve months. In this post I revisit my truck accident in February and how it changed quite a few things for me. Shortly after it happened, I wrote about some of the details of the accident. I had to leave out a few key bits, including the reason...

2010 Reflections p1 : Switching Jobs

Switching jobs in this hectic economy was one of the harder things for me to do this year, but ultimately was a huge win. This is just one of the many events this year that I’ll be reflecting upon over the next few weeks that helped write this chapter of my story. I had been working at AOL since 2006 and survived a lot of restructuring and layoffs with the company. For much of that period,...

Post Exhibition Routine – the life of a starving artist…

Red Hot Art Fest just wrapped up an hour ago. It was pretty cool, but I will write about that later when I can get all the pics and such together. I noticed a reoccurring theme with how I handle events like this. Similar to the way, super busy people get sick after a long stretch of business since they finally have “time” to get sick, I seem to have a sort of purging nature after an...