I married my wife, Linda in 1974 and we had our first child, Taylor in 1975. I started doing more arts and crafts shows around the Twin Cities and found them to be very successful. Later, I was laid off of work and the jobs simply weren’t there. Faced with this, I turned to my artwork and found much support from Linda. Together, we were able to provide for our family selling my watercolors. Several years later, we had our daughter, Emily, and I was called back to my old job, but we still enjoyed doing art shows on the weekends.