This month marks a full year that I have been filling my days with clay. I began provisionally – giving myself permission to take six months away from the job search to do the one thing I still felt inspired to do. The studio where I'd been taking classes offered a monthly partnership with unlimited access at a very reasonable rate, and I was just getting to the point where I needed practice more than instruction, so in March 2013 I became a regular at the studio. And somehow, here I am, still at it.