So, I Was Thinking

   Winter is approaching, the temperatures are dropping. It's getting time to hunker down. I'm especially thankful this winter, because we were able to get our heater fixed. We've been without our steam heating for the past two winters. Space heaters have kept the frost at bay, but with them comes incredibly high heating bills. ( We had a bill over six hundred dollars one month last winter). Our leaking roof has been fixed and we've started repairing all the water damage to our walls and ceilings. I sometimes feel like I've been through a lot, certainly more than I had been used to. This got me to thinking about how I always hoped and prayed to be a great artist. I don't think that you can become great without suffering. I'm not sorry for all I've been through, and I won't go through everything here because some of it is personal family stuff, but I never stopped to think all this would have to happen for me to reach my dream. It has been a long, hard road. I'm thankful that I had friends and family to help me along the way. I'm grateful for my wife and her positive attitude through all this. Friends and family have helped out immensely, I likely wouldn't be writing this without the assistance of my two sisters. I am selling a lot of shoes, a few paintings, and not my soul. I feel like I'm close to turning a corner.
   Here's some of the shoes I've done lately. you can see more of them here. You can also contact me there to order a pair for yourself.