Later I quit, or I just didn't go back to classes because it bored me. I think what kept me going at first was, to find a way that works. And when I found it, I moved on to something else. Eventually I couldn't do piano because we couldn't afford it, animals just depressed me because they were so fragile and sometimes not cooperative
(or unresponsive), dancing was easy, sewing was boring.  When I was old enough to work I started floral design at a family-owned florist in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts, at the age of 14. It was a tropical flower shop owned by a Lebanese family. I guess I stayed interested in flowers because they are moldable yet limited, fragile yet prideful, beautiful yet high-maintenance. But the stages and process that flowers go through was so intriguing to me even though I still did not want to read about them, because I wanted to, instead, figure them out for myself.  More >>