Welcome to The Art of Life my new blog about, well, life.  This blog was inspired by a conversation I had about some of my life experiences and how I could write a book.  My hope is that in writing these posts is that you, the readers, can draw something useful to apply to your own life experiences. Life has its ups and downs but it is how we handle those experiences that defines who we are.  Sometimes these experiences are too hard to handle and we look for ways to cope and handle them instead of letting them destroy us.  Each experience has value and it is what we…