It's WOW time.

Wow this is great, my book hit the Kindle store at Amazon today and at Smashwords as well. It's so exciting to finally see this all come together. Thanks so much to blog readers and YouTubers, the view counter is rising daily. I hope you will all like the book.
The book is a snapshot of a life that often takes the unconventional approach to a question. The question we all get on a daily basis - that is - what do I do with this situation? or this task or this relationship. From Vietnam to nude model and everywhere in between, lots of life happens and risks are taken. Stepping outside the box can be a new experience for anyone, especially if you're conservative by nature. Perhaps you will take a new step in a whole new direction after reading this book. Enjoy.

New YouTube video

Finally friends, a new video that will give more insight to my new book coming out this week. I expect we will see the e-book version by midweek in most places you can find e-books online. The video will give you some idea of my daily experience on the job. Next week I will be back in the classroom for a new semester of figure drawing. New students, new drawings, new lessons and a whole lot of enjoyment for me. Daily events often bring new stories I will be posting here and who knows perhaps in another book.  Peace

Art and your daughter's portfolio

Imagine your artist daughter (or son) is taking figure drawing among her art courses in college. You have just invited me to your home for a design consultation on remodeling your kitchen because I have 45 years experience in kitchen design and you wanted a pro. While I am in your home, your student daughter or son comes in the room and says "hey Steve, what are you doing here?" Now you are wondering how they know me, so you ask. The answer comes back, "Steve is my model in art class" and now your jaw hits the floor because you had no idea I was also a nude model. Sound funny? well it is true and this has actually happened to me more than once in my kitchen design business. There are many humorous stories in "It Takes a Naked Man - To Tell a Naked Story" The drawing shown here is an actual scene I posed for with another model. There is a story about this drawing in the book. Book should be about 2 weeks away now.

I m sure some of you are wondering what could be such an unusual part time job that got me all fired up to write a book about it. Life changes for all of us from time to time, and those changes can impact us in many different ways. I was discussing with a friend one day my interest in some kind of a part time job that would afford me casual hours with better than casual dollars. I had a need to improve my income but did not want to destroy my recreational time with a full time job. Little did I realize that finding the right part time job would not only pay me but improve my recreational time. How could that be possible? The answer is in the book, ha ha ha. I won't tease you too much here, I really hate those leading lines the media has gotten into.

Maybe you took a guess by the title and cover of the book. (still coming soon) Well my good friend brought me an ad from the local paper which was posted by an art school. They were looking for "nude" figure models. I think he did it as a joke but I took it seriously and went to apply. I had the job the next day. I have been a figure model now for almost 7 years and enjoyed every minute. It is more recreational time for me than work and even as I write this , I am smiling. I never would have guessed I would be doing this at any age let alone 69. The good news also is, I have been able to mix this job with my self employment as a kitchen designer and found more humor in that as well. I will explain that in my next post. Till then keep smiling.

I'm so excited to be here as a first time blogger. I hope you will find it interesting as I have much to say about this amazing part time job I found. A part time job like no other and as a senior citizen I found both joy and humor to the point that I wrote a book about it. Watch for more info on the book in the next few days. The book itself will be released soon, so stay tuned as I will be happy to share with you.