An In-Depth Look at What It Looks Like to be At a Job for Dang Near Twenty Years With a Bunch of People Who Haven’t, and Other Related Nonsense So I walked into work this morning singing one of the oldest songs I know, “I Got Mexico,” by Eddy Raven. I was knocking it out…
A Thousand Things
That’s what I keep trying to do. A thousand and one, maybe. I’ve been doing it all my life and if I know me, I’m not gonna stop any time soon. I’m gifted, and I know it. I’ve always known it. God’s given me a little bit of a whole lot of different talents. Not…
When You Can’t Find Your Motivation (and How I Don’t Have the Answers)
I absolutely get discouraged. Looking back over this journey we’ve taken over the last year, it would be easy to overlook all of our accomplishments and just focus on the failures. Today has been one of those days when it has been hard to stay on the positive side of things. Yep, it’s more than…
Go Buy Yourself a Shovel
So much pressure. This world comes full of it. Pressure to conform, pressure to excel, pressure to be different. Trying to wade through all of that can be overwhelming to say the least, especially when your life seems to depend on it. At least your financial life. What I’ve learned since I started writing is…
Rob’s House
Last night I finished this painting. Have you ever done something that you weren’t sure you could do, but ended up really proud because you accomplished it? That’s what this is for me. I’m a color artist. What I mean is, I see life—and things—in bits of color. That’s how I paint. That’s why I…
A Place Downtown
January 2019 came really fast! Tiff and I started Willow Dreams Design in April 2018. MoodyOops has been around for several years, but not as an official business, so what we decided to do at the time was to operate MoodyOops under the umbrella of the Willow Dreams LLC and open a brick and mortar…
A World Without Color
I mentioned in one of my previous posts that I was writing a book. My book is sort of a humorous look at life growing up in the South but with some serious undertones as my main character tries to work out some realities like sadness, trauma, and death. I wrote a character into the…
What’s Your Side Hustle?
Things Are Different Now. The world is changing, and the way that we do business is changing with it! The things that used to get you through life don’t work anymore. The good old Internet has caused a dramatic shift in the mindset of entrepreneurs. While it was once the norm to have one job,…
BAH HUMBUG, CHRISTMAS IS A HUMBUG
I’m better now. I put up a tree every year. This year, I sang some Christmas songs without crying. I want to feel Christmas in my heart again. It’s still hard, and I know it always will be. People who haven’t buried a child don’t understand, and I’m hoping you never will. Mikey loved Christmas….
How to Not Use Your Past as an Excuse to Fail
Geez. Life is hard and bad things–sometimes REALLY bad things–happen. Like…divorce and poverty and abuse. Oh, and the worst thing–death. Yep, the worst thing is definitely the death of someone that you love more than you love your own life. Trust me–I know. It’s so easy to fall back on those things as a reason(the…
Pink Hair and Pajama Bottoms 