Joe Murphy Opened a Blog Today?

Sooooooo I started trying to sell art 5 years ago. Thought at first wow this isn't so hard, in a few weeks I had six orders for pet portraits. You see I had lost my job of 14 years and I tell you I lost my whole identity. I had been Joe the x-ray tech for twenty five years. It's all I knew,  and now I couldn't find anyone who would hire me. You see I'm bipolar and the meds I take made it sound I could not longer work night and day. Which was what was expected of me. Funny thing was my employer felt I needed to get help. I did and then well there was no accommodations could be given to me. Sux to be me but sorry see ya! Well I went into a deep deep depression. I gave up. Slept all day and night. Literally prayed to be taken out of this world My wife says to me I'm moving back to Virginia you can either come or stay here. Well I lost my house was either go or move back to my family in Ohio. She told me your good at drawing peoples pets. That's what your gonna do. Huhhh I told throw all my art stuff away. Like a good wife..., she went out and bought more supplies. And I began to draw neighbors dogs. My first customer I gave her her portrait and she said how much did she owe me. Hmmm "thirty dollars" "NOPE she says sixty. Your underselling yourself. She set me on the path. I still have a tendency to underselling myself. You see I gave it away all my life. Just so I could see people be delighted with it. Well here I am . Branched out a lot. It's strange as a young artist I rarely did anything in color. I don't know but part of me believes my meds I take for my bipolar turned a key in my head and let me create in color now.