Badly Drawn Dogs (2)
MPR is an all volunteer 501C3 rescue group in Missouri, MPR's Mission is to promote responsible Pit Bull ownership, provide breed education, combat pet overpopulation, fight unfair legislation's, and find qualified homes for sound Pit Bull dogs in Missouri.
Badly Drawn Dogs (a weekly dog related doodle)
We adopted a dog. An unloved pit bull. On her final day on 'death-row' she was saved by Missouri Pit Bull Rescue. 6 months later we brought her home. She is safe now. She is family. We called her Pickle.
'But Jesus' I hear you cry, 'A pit bull!'. Yes, a pit bull. The most misunderstood/misrepresented/badly drawn breed of all. What else could I have adopted?
Badly Drawn Dogs (1)
BAD RAP are a small non-profit organization of pit bull owners, trainers, educators, rescuers, and supporters. BAD RAP evolved out of a desire to respond to the difficult issues facing this misunderstood breed.
Everything is Possible
in 2005 I was depressed. Suicidal. I went to a therapist. I began writing a beautiful revolution. In 2006 an agent approached me - then a publisher (John Murray) and my doodles became the book If You're Happy And You Know it. It was published during the week of my 40th birthday. I began doodling for BBC Ouch. 2007. I had finally found my place in this world. In 2008 I met my American publishers (Harper Perennial) in Soho. We sat for 2 hours in my favourite place in London Patisserie Valerie and planned how Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now would be. A memoir. A memoir.
My love life was still a complete disaster - going from one bad relationship to another. But then I met her. The girl on the internet. She lived in America. I went to see her. If I could write it down, it wouldn't come close to how she was. She came to England. In 2008 we sat in my bedroom and laid out every doodle, every word I had ever written on the floor and formed the narrative of my book Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now. June 2008 I went back to America with her. We got married. January 2009 my book Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now was published. In America. The place I now call home. I got a new agent. An American agent. Began to doodling for A Way To Garden. 3 months ago my wife and I bought our first home together. We adopted a dog. An unloved pit bull. We named her pickle. Last week my green card came through. In 2007 I found my place in this world. In 2009 I found everything.
I used to think you needed to see it, to believe it.
But now I realize that to see it, you must first believe it.
Everything is possible. Everything is possible.
