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It’s the morning rush hour, and your blood has reached the boiling point.

You have exactly five minutes to get to work and you discover a major traffic tie-up along the freeway.

You see the orange pylons, freeway insurance, and suddenly realize that you are stuck in a construction zone. The stress of being late for work seems overwhelming.

Or, perhaps it’s 5:30 p.m. and you’re rushing to pick your four-year-old up from day care.

A car suddenly veers in front of you and you have to slam on the brakes. You barely avoid an accident. Again, your stress level is rising and you’re finding it difficult to cope.

Inordinately fond of history as I am, I’ve decided to write about it. Not about my first love–from an historical perspective, I mean–Medieval European History, or my second love, Russian History. Not even about the bloodiest day in American History, the Civil War Battle of Antietam, which should have brought the Union cause close to victory, but, due to incomprehensible blundering, ended in a strategic draw, breathing two more years of life, at least, into Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.

At the behest of my counselors, my parents did their damnest to keep me preoccupied. Preoccupation was essential and theraputic,, canyon lake homes
, when consistent. Give an ADHD’er an hour of unsupervised, unmedicated freedom and bad things happened. I was no different and in a lot of ways, worse. My impulsive actions growing up placed me in a plethora of odd, harrowing and dangerous situations that, by themselves seemed “normal” for that age but soon I realized they happened with an increasing frequency.

Can anyone be an artist?

People admiring my work often say, “I could never do that!” I say, “Yes, you can!”

Eight years ago, during a very difficult time in my career in finance (Downsizings, layoffs – let’s not talk about it, OK?), my company sent me to a development workshop for female executives.

I came out of a particularly thought-provoking discussion group and penned the following, This is a preview of Find the Artist Within. Read the full post