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Don't be afraid to try something new, you never know where it will lead. Full stop. End of post. But seriously, when I think back to where I am now, much of my life has been directed by following my interests and curiosity. I was thinking about this back in April while I was taking an hour long drive to pick up a package of 10,000 bees. I know people who are beekeepers, I've helped harvest honey, and love reading about the life of bees. This is my first attempt at managing a hive on my own. It's exciting, and...

Last year, I posted once a week. It was an experiment to see if I could keep the posts going. While I succeeded, it's become increasingly hard to think of things I want to write about. I have also found many of the topics focused on dealing with the struggle to stay motivated and push through difficult times. Now I am finding it difficult to write these posts.  So I am going to post when I have something I want to say, and not make it about frequency. Better to have quality over quantity. Also, this winter has been busy in ways I...

Recently I've been having self-doubt about some of my skills because I don't always know what things and processes are called. When I catch myself worrying about it and questioning myself, I remember my early days of web development. I did not go to school for programming, I had an interest and started to play around with html and stylesheets. But I didn't always know what a process or piece of code was called. When I went on interviews, I would be asked technical questions I couldn't answer, but if you gave me a task or problem to fix, I...

The other day I was thinking about the first pottery class I took, which to be honest, wasn't so much a class as it was a bunch of people hanging out after work. I didn't stay at that studio for long. Anyways, as part of the class, you could signup for studio time to practice. I remember the studio monitor approaching me to ask what I was working on. "I'm making a teapot." He scowled and told me I couldn't make a teapot because I was a beginner and they are an advanced project. I don't remember how I responded,...

Last week, my new kiln was delivered. It arrived much earlier than I expected and while I'm thrilled to have it here, I am not quite ready to set it up in the new space. For reasons such as location and access, I decided to have the kiln delivered to my house, despite its final location being 9 miles down the road. I am lucky enough to have a friend with a tractor and was able to easily move it from the road into my garage, where it will stay until I have time to carefully and safely move it...