Most people wouldn't last a week at show choir camp rehearsing in a barn without air conditioning, but I'm not most people.

With my public speaking chops I could have been a news anchor, but I'd rather create a visual story than recite one. Plus Don Draper gets to flex his public speaking skills all the time. In the first season finale Don didn't just sell me a Kodak slide machine. He sold me a career.

As an Art Director I call myself an ambidextrous creative, since I've been mistaken for a writer on more than one occasion. I pride myself on this versatility, maybe that's why my name is a palindrome. Seems fitting for someone whose greatest life achievements range from selling out my college dance company performances as PR director, to writing an entire song about a rock I found that was shaped like the state of Ohio.

I don't take failure lightly, which explains why I still have nightmares about coming in last at my chilhood swim meets. But a few nightmares are okay with me, as long as I can dream about the latest campaign I'm working on.