IN Wilmington – All You Need for Going Out #inWilm!

The year was 2017. As an artist and a citizen, Kim Klabe was frustrated. Living in Rehoboth, DE, she was painting flawlessly rendered oil paintings of seascapes, old beach cottages, and boats, trying to sell them at art shows where she fought for notice in a sea of comparable work. The competition was brutal. After thirty years of putting in the work, her art was stagnating. Painting angles and the sharp edges of rooflines became a chore, and for what? She was paying more in fees to enter shows than she was making in sales...

A pivotal scene in J.R. Martinez’s autobiography, Full of Heart, describes the moment that Martinez looked into the mirror for the first time after surviving a bomb that hit his Humvee while he was serving in U.S. Army in Iraq. He had suffered burns to 34% of his body—and those were just the visible wounds. Martinez’s devastation at the reflection in the mirror manifested as rage. He was only nineteen...