"I showed up every day. It was never on a whim; it was a repeated drive to build something that turned into a space I thought about endlessly." ~ AJ Riall I really hope that these blogs don't come across as tutorials, because they are not meant to. I sat down today trying to think about what to blog about because the purpose of this blog is to document my journey. If I find like-minded people or others on a similar journey, then that is a bonus. A year and a half ago, I cert

I've been writing since I was little. I remember enjoying storytelling way back then. The cover of a book called Nobody Wants Barkley, by Marilyn Anderson, is still taking up space in my childhood memories. My tiny hands picking it up off the shelf, which I grabbed solely due to the art on the cover. I remember my thumbs brushing over the image on the front. My little empathetic heart was drawn to the fuzzy little terrier drawing. The sad expression as he lay in a cardboard b