When I recently took the plunge and shaved my head, a Facebook friend said, “Welcome to the world of elective male baldness.”

For the past 10 years, I have been designing magazines, newsletters and other publications that inform, entertain and inspire readers.

Pictures often sell houses, but it’s a sad fact that real estate agents are among the worst photographers I have ever encountered. Friends, I say this with love.

When I began snatching up domain names for my business — I finally settled on mikewatters.com — it never occurred to me to purchase bigmikewatters.com, which, I  learned shortly after, belongs to another Mike Watters based out of Buffalo, N.Y.

When I started my freelancing business a few years ago, I called it Colby Creative in honor of a very special cat. Since that time, I have done work for all manner of animal organizations in the Pacific Northwest.

All branches of physical science demonstrate the fact that every completed manifestation, of whatever kind and on whatever scale, is started by the establishment of a nucleus, infinitely small but endowed with an unquenchable energy of attraction, causing it to steadily increase in power and definiteness of purpose, until the process of growth is completed [...]