
I shut down my business the end of February and gotta say I'm starting to miss it. I haven't been sitting around doing nothing, I've actually been very busy, but it's the intangibles about business that I'm missing. The banter with customers, the rush from closing the big deal and the thrill of uncertainty are not a part of my...

The last few years I was in business I really had a difficult time going out and socializing. I was in and out of depression and it affected all parts of my life. Business-wise I had what is labeled "call reluctance" - I really had to force myself to get out and see customers and, when I did, I made the visits as short as...

Effective today, I'm an unemployed slacker with no source of income other than selling off pretty well everything I own. The only things I will keep are my Jeep, my Dali and my motorcycle and I'm not even sure about the motorcycle. And I'll keep my utility trailer because that's what I'll be living in this summer. Me and a big...

AN INTRIGUING INVITATION. A REVEALING DISCOVERY. A PROMISE OF ADVENTURE. A WHISPERED ROMANCE. A QUESTION ANSWERED. A SECRET KEPT. A MYSTICAL VOYAGE. THE GODDESS AND THE CLOWN. ...

So I'm in the paint store choosing wall colors for my renovation project when a couple walks in to buy paint for their kitchen. When the sales guy asks them what color they're looking for they say, "I don't know. What does everybody else use?"
The creative snobbery in me mentally pointed my finger at these people...

I'm working on a project and it's about 80% done. This is the point where a typical DaVinci starts gazing at the clouds, oblivious to anything else. I'm not going to allow that to happen. I'm going to finish this thing off. It's like killing a zombie. Go for the...

catherine, I'm madly in love with...

I just finished a project fixing up and staging a house for resale. It took about two weeks. The owner of the home is a DaVinci, bipolar with ADD. Before I took on the job I told her that I work according to my own shcedule - that the project would be done within the two week period but that I would be working some strange...