Category: Personal

https://soundcloud.com/thepetersam/my-love-story?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing As you begin to tell people you’re engaged, particular questions are generally asked. For example, where is the wedding going to be, where are you going to live, and where was the proposal? When you answer the last question with “in a parking lot,” people tend to react. In response to shaking heads I [...]

For a photography class, we were given the assignment of producing a series based on previous or future events. Most of my peers flocked to vintage clothing and classic automobiles. Knowing this, I had to be different. While reminiscing about a recent ceremony, I asked Christian for her cap and gown. She said yes and [...]

Throughout sixteen years I developed a book for a child or children I do not know. I did not exude a typical adolescence, assuming obedience is still strange for a teenager. Though, my tarnishing fault was a lack of interest to call my parents when they did not know where to find me. I began [...]

Here is the story you have been waiting for. How did I go from art to accounting? Do you remember the coffee shop I mentioned a while ago? There was a customer that wanted me to obtain a degree, she had a connection to Elon University. Well, she was an accountant at a chemical company. [...]

There may be some of you asking how I have an art degree, despite being a college dropout. After mentioning both briefly in recent posts, here is the explanation. First, I did not anticipate graduating from college. My ambition was to be in a touring band by the age of twenty. I held a meager [...]

From my birth until his wedding day, my brother and I shared a bedroom. However, we did not have a door to the room until I was ten or twelve years old. He would lock the door and proceed to beat me up, so our dad removed it from the hinges. To be fair, my [...]

“Professors I respect have told me to choose between pursuing a career as an artist, musician, or author. I admit their unanimous advice is practical, but I … With a word, I close this book to begin another: Gesamtkunstwerk.” I wrote these words as a college student. They were believed throughout my twenties and even [...]

Christmas is about Jesus and not presents, but I keep remembering that my opa (grandpa) gave me a 10-pack of popcorn one year for Christmas. I would not complain if he was a poor man doing what he could for a grandchild, but he stole my father’s inheritance and traveled the world with the money. [...]