?SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT?: I’m prepping the last #AREsketches shipment before I leave for #AIAcon16 – and I’m bringing books to Philly! That’s right, put it on your calendars. AREsketches meetup Thursday at 12:30 at Town Hall. If you already have a book and are coming to convention and want it signed, bring it along and I’ll give it my Jane Hancock. If you want a book, but haven’t bought one yet – you’re in luck! I’m bringing the rest of what I have in stock to sell and we’ll do pre-sales with the promised signatures (if I run out). If you want to just chat sketches or study tips or tell me it sucks, that’s fine too. I’ll see you at 12:30 on Thursdsay and we can chat about the tests or Philly cheese steaks or your cat. See you then! [Tag anyone you think would be interested]

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Posted May 16, 2016

You guys! I was interviewed about #AREsketches – and I didn’t sound *completely* silly! Mark at @entrearchitect had a fun time chatting it up. And #gorillapup even chimed in at one point. We talked how inspirations become innovations and studying for the #ARE can be as simple as 1-2-3. Which is also the episode # for this podcast. Go to http://ift.tt/27jQNVV to check it out. And listen to some of Mark’s other podcasts too – he’s a super valuable guy to know if you want to succeed in business.

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Posted May 13, 2016

I bought this bottle almost a year and a half ago. The quote (below) on the label spoke to me. Invigorated me. Challenged me. At that point I was unlicensed and hadn’t finished a single project for #ThisOldHouse, though I’d started many. I was in a bad job and didn’t know where my future was headed. I hadn’t even started the #AREsketches series yet. So much has happened in this last year and a half that could’ve made me uncork this. My licensure 2wks later? Nah. My first #AREsketches shared image a month later? Meh. Getting a new job with @ratio_design 4 months later? Save it up. A myriad of #ThisOldHouse projects finished? No way Jose. But publishing and selling the first 100 copies of a book that you couldn’t have even dreamed about when you first bought that bottle of wine so many months ago? Abso-freakin-lutely. That is the embodiment of this quote to me. You don’t know the path ahead, but keep stoking that fire inside and share what you can at every bend in the journey to make this place better. Feed the fire until it becomes a light. • “So what is the big picture for you? Why are you here, right now, and what is it you are meant to be doing? What is that one idea you just cannot shake? Do you have the juice to deliver on that idea? If not, why not? What will give you the courage to do so? Go ahead and do a stage left. Live it. The world all awaits your greatness.”

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Posted May 11, 2016