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I'm a lifelong resident of beautiful Portland, Oregon. I began designing pages at age six, making little booklets patterned after my brother's high school yearbooks. After graduating with a BA in Communications, and taking a career detour or two, I began a fun and rewarding career as a freelance graphic designer. I have a deep belief in the power of personal photography to enrich life and increase joy. I also love modern design ... thus my Design Studio was born. I am an incurable optimist with the belief that everything in our lives works together for our ultimate good. I am crazy about my family, reading, dogs, road trips, the natural world, fashion bargains, and smokehouse almonds. |
CommentsI’m foolish, and I hope you are, too!“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” —Steve Jobs, in a 2005 commencement address at Stanford.
I hope you are foolish enough to believe that you have something unique to offer the world that no one else does … NO ONE, in this world of 6,697,254,041 individuals (thank you, Google). I hope that, at whatever stage you are in life right now, you know at some point you will begin to put your heart and soul into offering that “something” … in whatever large or small way you choose. And I hope you listen for that inner voice, and when he or she says the time is right to go for it, you are foolish enough to believe it. Right then. Thankfully, Steve Jobs’ foolishness led to the invention of Apple, and eventually to iTunes, where I get a daily dose of encouragement from several great podcasts. One of them is a weekly discussion on developing a web-based business called “Foolish Adventure.” If you’re watching that roller coaster of opportunity approaching, and wondering whether to jump on (or if you already have), I highly recommend you listen, too. “Foolish Adventure” is a relaxed but substantive weekly discussion by Israel Hyman and Tim Conley, two entrepreneurs (Tim is also a consultant) who generously offer their expertise in starting and building a web-based business. I found them because I’m a fan of Izzy’s wife, Noell (a "Top 10 Most Influential Scrapbooker"); Izzy is the producer of her two weekly podcasts (Paperclipping and Paperclipping Roundtable, also known as PRT), and a related podcast for digital scrapbookers (the Paperclipping Digi Show). He’s often a PRT panelist, too—the gently-ascerbic male at a virtual table of sentimental scrapbooking women. At any rate, while I’m working long hours on my own adventure I rarely have time to read, so I’ve become a big fan of podcasts while I work. As well as the trio of Paperclipping shows and Foolish Adventure, I also recommend The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry if you’re either in, or are thinking about starting, a venture that will require you to “create on demand.” And as I’ve listened to Noell, Izzy, Tim and Todd, I’ve been hoping that everyone is foolish enough to pursue their unique dream when the time is right. Because there’s nothing wiser than that.
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