Jackie Goodman:  

I will add more later but for now...I have the following. In October of my Senior Year, my family moved from Raisin City, California to Troy, Missouri to be near my mother's family. My father was starting to show signs of a mental illness and couldn't work. Missouri was a huge change from California. I grew up in the San Joaquin Valley with crops, vineyards,orchards out the kazoo and the land was flat. The High school there was so much bigger! than the one in California. I had to sign up for classes after their semester had already started. On a whim, I took my first art class. After graduation, I worked at a sewing factory and that wasn't much fun. Sometimes I took too many bathroom breaks just to break up the monotony. I don't like repetition and it was boring. Then I moved onto a dishwasher job. Two years later, I started school at College of the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri and chose Art as my major. I was on the 5 year plan! but I didn't k...Expand for more