Hi, my name is Paul Wylie, artist, writer, and technological geek. This website is my mostly nonfiction writing portfolio with a few poems as a blog, art gallery of my sketches, and shared resources of my home state and technology, and other interests I have. It is purely informational now.
The Blog
Full of my esoteric ideas and philosophical beliefs along with open-mindedness. If you want to reach out, I will put a contact form within. A lot of my writing is a combination of rhetoric from the past, current states of mind, and lately more about the journey of awakening while remaining a simple man, who has learned independence and solitude along the way.
The Art
These are sketches I mostly did within the past thirty years, as I develop newer techniques currently. There are both graphite and color pencils drawings, as I hope to further my skills with other media over time like watercolor, acrylics, pastels, charcoal, and even oils on a canvas. I have had a passion for art since I was about five years old.
Technology
Since around the turn of the century or the year 2000, I started developing technological skills. I learned how to flash a bios on my own with a floppy disk. I initially started using DOS or disk operating system way back in the 1990s. I learned how to format drives, and in 2003 I took a personal computer repair correspondence course. In 2004 I earned two Computing Technology Industry Association or CompTIA certifications, A+ and Network+. I also got the Certified Internet Webmaster Associate v5 certification in 2009.
The Mid-Life Crisis
My life was in a complacent stage around the age of forty-seven, so instead of buy a sports car like many men do at this age, I decided to go back to college. I started at a two-year college, Pulaski Technical College in 2006, where I excelled but took my time in, thus graduated with honors in 2009 thus becoming a member of Phi Theta Kappa, an honor society for two-year colleges.
That same year 2009 I went back to a college I attended before and failed, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. After accepting academic clemency for my fails, I graduated with a bachelor's degree in information science in 2014.
Some New Beginnings
My mother passed in 2013, and I had lived with her since getting out of the military in 1983. I got married for the first time in 2014, at the age of fifty-five, too. We divorced in 2016. I worked a few higher-level tech jobs for the state of Arkansas and Walmart for a while plus a few more later until Covid 19 hit and in 2020 was the first stage of failure of my technology career.
Today
I am now semi-retired and working part-time as a Hallmark Retail Merchandiser. I am still looking to have a larger retirement income, so I can fully retire and enjoy nature again by fishing and camping, hiking, and just being out in the great outdoors. I also want to focus on my art and create some masterpieces as well as author some books I have dreamed of for a while.