Me, Myself, and a Kiwi


I'm an older student with two kids and an English degree from the University of South Carolina. This course is part of my visual communications major at LBCC, and I'm anxious to learn how to market my art on the web. I'm most passionate about spending time with my 12-year-old son, Kiwi; we play a lot of video games and bitch about how humans are destroying the world. 

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