I am exploring my artistic side. My mother was an artist, both photographer and paitner, and passed her skills and interests to me. After spending a great part of 2011 tending to my mother after she was diagnosed with Lung Cancer and succumbing to her illness in September, I have began to explore those talents or interests I inherited from my mother. I have been dabbling in digital photography and writing for several years and have begun to explore expressing my thoughts and feelings of grief and loss through oils on canvas and playing the Spirit Flute.