I am a prodigal son to art. When I was younger I was really into my art; always drawing from the time that I could hold a pencil. I had grand aspirations of being a professional artist, even pulling a brief stint as an amateur tattoo artist in the wilder days of my youth. But as I grew into adulthood the distractions of family life and career took me away from art. Fast forward a decade or so, and I found myself deployed to Iraqi in some really touch-and-go situations. There I was forced to seriously reevaluate the important things in my...more
