I’ve long wanted to write about being an artist. Not a well known artist, award winner, and top seller (though those descriptions are great) but a person who knew from childhood that drawing and making art was my calling. I think there are others like me, who will paint and draw all their lives, not to make a living necessarily, but absolutely to make a life. So I wrote my thoughts down, added about 50 of my paintings and self-published a book.