Book Award

Exciting day today! The book won an award at the 2006 Annual Florida Publishers Association Presidents Book Awards. Very Cool! There were 11 different awards given out today. 'Awaken Your Soul' won for Best Design. It felt good to win in a category that recognized creativity. It reinforced to me that anyone can tap into their individual creativity and make something happen. The last thing I would have expected would be to get an award for creative design. Just 10 years ago art directors were throwing me out of the creative department of my own agency saying, " Leave the creative to us. You do the account stuff, we will do the creative work."

REVENGE!!! SWEET!

Until next time. Creative Passion Rules!

Damned Lucky

When I was in NY I took this photo of our flag on the side of a building around 56th & 3rd. It reminded me that I don't take the time to appreciate my country. I take it for granted. And most of the time I don't even think about it. I haven't know anything else. I haven't had my freedom taken away nor have I lived in fear of my government. So I don't have any prior experience to compare it to.

Based on what's going on around the world today, I'm sure loving and appreciating what I have and where I have it. With all the criticism that flies around about our country, we are still the damned luckiest people in the world.

Until next time...Passion Rules!

The Drive

Jennie and I drove from Boulder to Fort Lauderdale in 2 days. That's 2043 miles in 2 days. 1000 miles a day, or about 16 hours a day. Man that is a lot of driving.

It felt like the longest part of the drive was I-70 through Kansas. If felt like that state went on forever. Overall we drove through 7 states; Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

We put all of Jennie's stuff in a 5'x 8' Uhaul. Soon after we started the trip the Uhaul would periodically start swaying back and forth. And it would cause the Jeep to sway. It was scary. I don't know what caused it, but I learned that if I sped up, then it would pull the Uhaul back into 'alignment', and stop the swaying. Now you can imagine that every hour or so the Uhaul would start swaying again. I'd have to slow down, then speed up to get it to stop. It was annoying as hell. And I didn't want Jennie drive because I didn't feel like she'd be able to manage it. And she felt uncomfortable with it. So I ended up driving the whole way home.

Jennie was great company. We played word games and she was the music DJ, but even at times she would get bored and antsy. It's uncomfortable to sit for 16 hours in a car. I have a new respect for truckers. I don't know how they do it. Sitting all day. The boredom of driving.

I'm grateful that we made it home safely and that we didn't have any issues on our drive home. I don't want to do it again.

Until Next Time....Passion Rules.