I've Gone Mad

“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

― Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland"

In the past week...

• I pulled my kids from school (again, for like the third time since they've been school-aged) to homeschool.
  

• I quit my job working at the school. (Because I had to, obviously. See above.)
  

• I've been debating selling my art at local fairs an festivals, instead of online... something I've never done before. Though I love sending my work all over the world, I am so done with the shipping process and ever-increasing postage prices.
  

• I've also been considering creating a body of work to show in a gallery. This would mean larger pieces though, something I'm notorious for not finishing.
  

• I'm writing again. Here. In my journal. Working on the book that I've been "working on" for fifteen years. It's about my spiritual experiences. It's incredibly personal and also bursting at the seems to come out of me and into the world.
  

• We closed on another flip house― After a catastrophic financial loss in 2023-2024 (due to a rapid shift in the housing market and nearly every bad thing that could happen), we're trying it again. It's a super cute historic bungalow right on Main Street in a historic, walkable southern town. It holds so many stories and I can't wait to restore it and make it magical once again!

And that's life at the moment... always interesting. Always an adventure. Always on the edge of my seat and questioning every decision I make ten thousand times. I don't know any other way to be. I'm utterly and completely mad. I need life to be interesting at all times. Otherwise, I'm bored to tears, and that's no fun at all.

(Please take time to admire my rooster painting. I'm very proud of him. His name is Larry.)