Thoughtful conversations with the people of Maine

I don't think when I started painting, I had any intention of showing my artwork that came with a friend of mine who owns a business in Hollowell. She hosts a different artist every month, and she offered to have my art there, and I kind of freaked out at first. No, no, no, I don't want anyone to see it. And then I did it and I sold out in a week.

If you're hungry for something, that's what you will search out and seek out. I found artists that I really liked that maybe even my dad didn't really like, and I kind of glomed and attach myself to those artists and sort of saw what made them tick.

Silence can be deafening. Silence speaks volumes. So if they're avoiding talking about disability, for example, because they're worried, do I say non apparent or invisible or hidden? What do I do? So they say nothing.