a drawing of a classmate done in my freshman drawing class
I started out in the fine arts, as it were.
My mother would buy me rolls (yes, rolls) of paper to satiate my appetite for drawing. I sketched and doodled and colored so much it would get me in trouble in school, particularly when I filled the margins of my workbooks with drawings of animals and trees and whatnot. Over time I found tools on the computer that substituted for pencil and paper, and the frequency of my doodling on notes and napkins waned.
Fortunately my interest in drawing has allowed me to acquire the job I have today, but I feel sometimes as though I’ve betrayed my roots by hardly picking up a pencil in a day’s time.
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I’m pretty sure that I’m the only one in the office who doesn’t have a smartphone. I remember going to lunch with three of my coworkers who spent at least a quarter of the time on their iPhones doing one thing or another (most of this was spent figuring out whether ordering their meal via the restaurant’s app was faster than standing in line). I want to say that I’m content with my Tracfone at the moment, since I don’t talk on the phone a lot, but the monthly bill for an iPhone is pretty steep. The reality is, whether I like it or not, smartphones are here to stay, and they’re also becoming pocket-sized internet browsers. 
