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Have you ever felt like you are many separate people? Do you feel like there is someone you wish you were? There is the personality that presents itself at work, at home, as a parent, as a friend, etc. Often these personalities are different. Our identities can get wrapped up in who we are as a profession or as a parent or what we do in our spare time. Would you show your true self to your co-workers? Would you show your true self right away to someone you just met? Should we define ourselves, say, by what we do as a career? It’s easy to let happen. Who am I if I’m not (fill in the blank)? Who am I if I’m not a mom, a friend, a sister, a ___?

No life experience is ever wasted, no matter whether it’s a bad experience, or a wonderful experience or, just … blah. All of it makes up who we are at right now. It’s a matter of pulling these aspects of our personality or life experience together to make up one amazing human. It’s okay to embrace the you that did something...

I have been an artist all my life, ever since I could hold a pencil. I have always loved to draw and paint. My styles have varied over the years from realism to abstract and everything in between. The mediums I most enjoy working with are: oil, prismacolor, charcoal, graphite, watercolor, pen & ink, alcohol ink, and acrylic. Currently I am experiencing a mammoth amount of creative freedom working on abstract art. In 2013 I donated one of my kidneys to a young woman who had only been born with one very diseased kidney. Since then she has been thriving and going to college and living her life. I consider this such a privilege and i'm so happy I was a match for her. I have lived all over the country. I primarily grew up in Woodland...