Welcome to my site!

I started this to get my writing “out there,” unsure where this thing is taking me.

Why do this?

• Because I have crap-tons (yes, that’s a measure) of material from years of writing, drawing, making music, general life musings, etc. that is apparently at the point in which I need to advertise myself.
• Because I am not very good at pimping myself out for art or public entertainment.

The hope of this project is to make money in a way different from my current pastime of practicing medicine as a Nurse Practitioner. I know, slumming it all these years, right? I needed a creative outlet due to reality being a bummer at times.

I am literally writing over the templated WordPress stuff until I figure out what this thingee webpage designing is all about. I am a lowly servant of the people and computers will most likely be running the world soon, anyhow. Here are the facts:

• I love writing and want to do it fer reals. However, I am realistic in that I am not J.K. Rowling. The wild dream of superstardom shall continue to elude me until it doesn’t. Therefore, “Don’t quit your day job,” as they say.
• I have over 30 stories that I am compiling into an anthology, History of Ruth (or, the H.o.R., as it has become) that I hope to get published. They are eclectic horror fantasy and usually weird.
• If Google Docs didn’t exist, those stories would most likely be organized into a Trapper-Keeper-type situation, as I am a child of the 80’s.
• Success comes in many forms and is best when felt all around.

Ok, that last point was more of a fortune cookie statement, but these place markers serve their purpose in order to jump start my website.

I have always had my hands in art of some sort since I was a kid. As I grew up and began adulthood, I struggled with the grind vs. creativity. Then, becoming a soulless work puppet, I was deeply into professional life and became–shocker!–unhappy with that lifestyle. I sought ways to evolve into something that would not make me want to jump off a cliff upon awakening in the morning.

I found that mindfulness based meditation and writing has helped me to reduce the sense that Da Man is holding me down.

This will be fun. Hopefully for you, too.

KJK