There is definitely life after shopkeeping! For the most part, I'm back to being an editor; books mostly. It has been a slow start and pretty slow going... it's what I used to do, but there's a lot more competition these days from people in SE Asia with English degrees from US Universities.

I still write. I still work on art. My wife and I still have our non-profit. I'm still pretty active with this-and-that on eBay.

The struggle is definitely real! But then again, nobody ever said that Living the Creative Life was going to be easy...