My whole life has been constant struggle between my analytical side versus my artistic side.

I work all week for a newspaper, using my mathematical (keeping the budget and paying the departmental bills) and organizational side (keeping track of 42 employees). But at night, I design jewelry. I love working for the newspaper. But I also love making jewelry ... always have. Left brain, right brain.

As a child, I would make jewelry, make pressed flowers into framed works of art, sculpt, draw and, of course, make all of my Barbie clothes. (Now I make them for my grand-daughter's Barbie!)

Throughout my school years ... earning my English Literature degree and then taking up library sciences in grad school ... there always seemed to be time for my art, no matter the amount of left brain studying.

Left brain, right brain. I need both sides to exist.