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  • Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 20 Faith is prevailing, a source of power that can skootch someone outside of their comfort zone with certainty in their head and heart that they are under the watchful eyes and loving hands of heaven. Some may say that my relocating to the unknown before buying houses that…

  • Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 19 It was a nice fall afternoon when the four of us made our videos. First would be Diann and the kids and then another of just me. Each recording would be around two or three minutes. Our daughter was five, in the first grade, and my stepson was…

  • Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 18 From the start, some who’ve seen me on American Rehab Charleston or Restoring Charleston have been curious to know if I’d steadily lobbied the television networks, or rather was that the way for them to get on television themselves? Am I an example of persistence and tenacity? Or…

  • Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 17 One way to help those aspiring for exposure of their own while also just telling the story some are interested in, is to own-up to many of my mistakes. And this is the tricky part, because it can come across as if I’m making excuses, and I’d rather…

  • Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 16 More than really being necessary, having a dedicated email address for my blog Blood, Sweat, and Pig’s Ears simply made me feel good. It also established a buffer early on, as if this blog was more removed from me. I didn’t mention my family, and I was several…

  • Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 15 Parenthood unleashes a cascade of advice on how to get through the early months of sleeplessness, then suggestions about raising a toddler, and on from there. For me it was a lot at first, too much guidance to swallow. But then someone made it clearer for me by…

  • Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 14 I had not spoken with Nicole Curtis, the star of the hit TV show on HGTV and DIY called Rehab Addict. Nor had she talked to me. And yet, through my blog and her comment in April 2012, we had sort of communicated. I suppose, without intending to,…

  • Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 13 In the spring of 2012, some things were clear. My wife had let me know, either sincerely or tongue-in-cheek, that the star of HGTV/DIY’s Rehab Addict had been tuned into this blog/my home renovation blog Blood, Sweat, and Pig’s Ears. Diann made her opinion clear several times when…

  • Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 12 The details behind Nicole Curtis commenting on my blog Blood, Sweat, and Pig’s Ears in April 2012 were a minor mystery. I wrote nice things about her show and basically, she thanked me. In addition to this being a special moment, it was a thought-provoking surprise that forced…

  • Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 11 Think about married couples you know. How often have you heard a husband say, “My wife was right. I was wrong. And I’m more than okay about it”? In 2012, I was working steadily on projects down in the west of the Ashley River side of Charleston and…