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I just came up with a line I really like in an email to a friend:

My life continues to be a huge drama on the world stage with a small, ratty and low budget set.

In other words, a lot of exciting things are happening and yet, I never leave the house. Well, not much anyway.

I've been getting quite a lot of press and sales and commission inquiries this winter, from pretty much all over the country. Right now I'm working on drawings for 10-12 sculptures to adorn the courtyard of a 17 story Chelsea highrise in NYC. I'm waiting to hear back from an architect in Topeka, Kansas about three Great Bowls O Fire that he'd like to fit out with gas flames and install on stone pillars in a new restaurant. I just got off the phone with a client who bought a Great Bowl earlier this winter and now wants to surround his pool with some of my torches. Rock on.

I've done three interviews for magazines and websites this week. The Sprint Ambassador Program is sending me a free cell phone with six months of free service. School children write emails from overseas asking about my art for school reports they're doing. HGTV contacted me a while back about possibly featuring my work on their show, Offbeat America (it doesn't look like it will happen this time, but it's still pretty cool to be asked). I've also met a lot of incredibly cool people this year that I consider to be good friends despite never having seen them in person.

Almost all of this has come about because of the time I've put in writing blogs. The only drawback has been that at times, the response becomes so overwhelming that I don't take the time to post about it here. I'm working on that. And if things keep going the way they're going, maybe this will be the year that my "small, ratty and low budget set" gets a significant facelift and becomes the theater of my dreams.

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