I'm  a 51 year old woman who is finally going to change my life and make it wanty I want it to be!

I was an art major in college. Went to graduate school and had some success as an artist. I didn't know how to play the game, though and eventually  moved back home to NM with no job, no money and a good sized student loan.

Initially, I had terrible luck finding a job so took whatever I could get. I worked as a care-giver to severely disabled folks, the eventually as a sign painter.

Yep, that was me, hanging upside down from the top of a ladder with a bucket of paint. I was 36 and the temperatures were in the 80s.

But the industry was changing and so sign painting was going digital! I learned a lot about computers and graphic arts, went to the local community college to learn more and eventually was hired as a multimedia developer.

Now I teach graphic design.

I'm going to quit my teaching job in August. I hated it all these years. It's just not the right fit for me.

I am going to be a free person. I will do what I enjoy most and the money will follow. I am going to write a children's book and I am going  to paint great art and I am going to enjoy he rest of my life.