love affair with words

My love affair with words translated to collage-making in my teen years. This shoe-box top collage is from 1971 when I was a sophomore in high school. How it has survived all these years I’m not certain – it’s like a little time capsule of memories.

Over the years my ‘art’ morphed into elements of graphic design because life in the nonprofit world where I spent my career often requires becoming a jack-of-all-trades out of budget necessity.

Keeping us off the rocks was my ‘day job’ as a CEO, but I also had almost unlimited opportunities to exercise my design muscle with countless brochures, invitations, flyers and ads over those years. Again, words and layout were my ‘Old Faithful…’