On a few occasions at Feed the Children, I did a little graphic design. In January 2014, I collaborated with my boss, Joy Bennett, on a blog post titled Ten Simple Ways To Help Children in 2014. I did the graphics for each of the ten, which were used together in the blog post and separately in a social media campaign.

One of my favorite freelance clients was Texas Trio, an upscale rustic furniture store. They sold the kind of stuff you’d put in your million-dollar ranch house to make it look cozy. The owner was pretty pleased with the look I came up with.

I spent several years with Real Estate Concepts, both as a freelancer as the in-house marketing director. I built the website, designed the ads, produced the weekly open house materials, and did my best to please a large staff of type-A salespeople.

There are worse jobs than selling real estate at Possum Kingdom Lake, and there are also worse jobs than designing ads for those people who sell that real estate. I had that job. The design one.