About me / bio

I am an introvert who has decided to go against my very nature and start blogging and sharing my arts. I hope you find my journey entertaining and perhaps inspiring knowing that there is for better or worse at least one other person that is/is not like you. 

My name is Tom, or Thomas if you prefer. You may know me as model88. My unknown claim to fame is I write the “What would you ask a pixie about herself or pixies in general?” blog. I grew up in the Northeast United States and currently live in The Ozarks. I’ve spent many years in healthcare and service industries and am peopled out! Yes, the irony of being an introvert while choosing people-centric vocations is not lost on me. I do like people, just in small doses. I’m sure most everyone that has spent time with me also says I too am fun but only in small doses.

I like really about everything/anything: Art, Science, Mystery, Adventure, Experiments, Mathematics, etc. I’m not good at any of those but I still enjoy reading, learning, and doing them. I enjoy the outdoors and though I do not like to be cold I love snowy weather and colder places. I’ve been able to experience a lot of different things and places so that too has been great! I’m also a foodie.

Hello World! [take two]

Second verse, same as the first. A little bit louder and hopefully NOT worse!

 I originally started this so long ago with the idea it would be fun to have my own website. That I would regularly post pictures, stories, and random thoughts. Sharing my drawings and all their mistakes as I learn to draw. That I would enjoy fielding questions about pixies and such, and enjoying time with people who enjoyed pixies and such, stories, learning, daydreaming, etc. etc…

But then life. Which suddenly became very not good. Depending how you count it I had between five and seven ‘significant life changing events’. None of them the good kind… Though I still desired to make my happy place here it was overwhelmed by many factors. 

A lot of time has passed since that first post above and I did learn some other things about myself. Disasters retrospectively are great times of introspection.

I learned how much of an introvert I am. I like people and occasional company but really, I am pro-solitude. Being an introvert is kinda’ contrary to sharing your self on the world-wide web and potentially interacting with LOTS of people. But ironically, I DO want to share all that I said above with others. Sharing doodles and stories and oops moments can be fun! It is a dilemma…

The only way out of a dilemma is to make a choice. So here I go!

Hello world!

The face of Chenelle

The face of Chenelle
The face of Chenelle and the beginning of all this lunacy… Which is a story about a pixie as beautiful as all pixies are. Or a story about someone who fell in love with the idea of learning to draw…