Things like not getting a full nights sleep or working longer hours than I should do have a huge impact on what I am capable of doing. It’s funny as this is a universal problem - no one likes not having enough sleep. But for us TBI survivors it really shuts things down.

I work slowly. I take a lot of breaks. I don’t want to have expectations of employees I cannot myself meet. But… to be successful, if we do end up producing in house, I will have to set guidelines that I have trouble meeting.

I’m very open about my traumatic brain injury in 2003. I have shared that my art is a direct response to this trauma. Living with it is a daily thing and I will carry its aftermath until I die. What I have not been explicit about is my business being the only feasible course of action to build a career that can financially sustain me the rest of my life.

2023 has been a year of incredible challenge for me. I was badly rear ended in January 2023, resulting in back problems from my coccyx up to my jaw (I was diagnosed with lock jaw/TMJ at the ER the next day) as well as a wrist injury that STILL 9 months later hasn’t healed.