Long drive to Chicago. 28 hours. Avoided music and the associated memories. Audiobooks did little to shorten the drive across the desert. Felt disconnected. Pushed the stress into a ball and buried it in my gut. Wife and children were not comfortable there. In the end, I couldn’t. Disconnecting further from my family while living so far away would not lead anywhere good.

Furnished apartment sublet. Definitions of furnished differ. Bare walls, a couch for a bed. Not very warm. Hyde Park is a grocery store wasteland. Look forward to moving north.

Look forward to talking to my kids tonight. Son parrots everything daughter says on the phone. Surprised he can talk on the phone at all. Internet and webcam ordered.

I opened my mail - the Toronto Art Expo has accepted me as an exhibitor at the February show

Yes, it costs major bucks to get in. Yes I have never to the show before, and have no clue how I should be hanging/displaying artwork there. There are a lot of things to be done - get a website, make some more art, get some small yet classy signage made . . .

Hot damn, I'm in. First acceptance of any real note since I moved here. This is the big leagues, and I am going to the Show

Now, has anyone attended this particular show before? The dividers are curtains of some sort apparently. I don't have a modular hanging system and don't wish to invest in one - but the attached video to the website seems to show people using chains hanging from the divider pipes to suspend art. I could use some input from any attendees/artists/patrons. Feeling a tad flustered. Maybe it is such a large investment that I am flapping about unnecessarily. After...