Sonora Mother Painting

I was born in North Carolina, and from there moved every 6 months to a year for almost my entire life, staying with relatives and friends in series apartments, houses, shacks and sometimes on the streets in WV, NC, OH, PA, IL, MS, CA, MA, RI, and WA. I've been a bookseller, welder, ditch digger, door to door screendoor seller, fence painter, landscaper, busboy, waiter, dishwasher, barista, HotTopic retail weirdo, busker, homeless beggar, thug and enforcer, janitor, screenplay writer, call center rep, lawyer, project manager, program manager, poet, artist and genealogist. When I was a 21 year old high school dropout, I started the snowball that turned into an avalanche of 9 years of contiguous education; GED, AA, BA, JD, LLM, and then promptly walked (a guided stumble really) into a career that was unrelated to all of it. Through it all, I've been writing and painting.