Update

It has been a while since I last wrote anything, and much has happened since my last post.
First, I received my MA from Central, which means this blog no longer has to pander to the academic world. Secondly, I have been living and working between New York and Philadelphia as a puppeteer for almost five months, getting consistent work when I've been looking for it, and have had some great successes working for great companies like No Tea Theater and the Jim Henson Company.
Third, my life has changed dramatically in so many ways and at the moment I'm feeling free, confused, lost, and happy with a chance of depression. It's been a bit of a whirlwind. People come and go in our lives and sometimes we get so wrapped up in pleasing everyone else, that we forget about the person who should come first once in a while...the self.
So I've been wading my way through emotional turmoil, self doubt and the lack of love for any or all art, but that is all starting to change. Currently, I'm working on two paintings, one puppet, and two masks all to sell with percentages going to St. Judes Children Hospital. It's made me realize how happy a paintbrush and a canvas make me, and how I have been needing it in my life for the last year.
There is no doubt in my mind that graduate school changed my whole life in a few good ways, and in some major negative ways. I'm not the same person who set out across the pond to change the world, in fact, I'm more timid and self-deprecating than before, but every day it gets a little easier to get through the day. Each day I am also thankful for the friends I have made who have stuck by me through it all, and sad for the friends I have lost.
Sigh. One day. I'm going to get to the finish line one of these days.
More to come soon. Pictures and a reflection of my puppetry up to this point. How can I improve and what is going well.
Thanks for reading. :)