This month, I thought I’d take a moment to look back. Ironically, I’m looking back to hopefully help me understand how things may look in the future. We are going to travel back to February 2022. In February of that year I left my permanent teaching position to “pursue” a career in art. I actually remember that I was scared making this decision. There was the nagging feeling of what if this doesn’t work out. The feeling of am I silly to leave something that gave me such secur

I’m feeling slightly uninspired when it comes to the blog this month, not entirely a good sign when it is only the second month of the year!  I’m caught in between choosing one specific question or starting to write and seeing where it ends up. It feels like I’m taking option two at the moment. It’s not because I don’t want to write, it’s just I don’t want to force anything. I tried to start this a couple of days ago too and had the same block or the same feeling of not knowi

I want to try and keep things simple this year. At least one wee sketch a day and one blog post a month.  To stop any overthinking, each blog post will be titled by the month and the year.  I am not using AI or ChatGPT to write anything, I want to keep things as human as possible. (The same goes for my art!).  The reason for the blog post is to be able to write something a little longer as I am feeling somewhat constrained by posting on reels. To me it feels more sustainable