Hello! My name is Arthur Vinson and this is Carpe Piscem, my personal blog. From here I hope you’ll join me as I share my journey as a freelance writer, my explorations of faith and my good times with friends.
What can I say about me?
I’m a down-to-earth sort of fellow, having been born about two months premature to military parents about 30 years ago. I also have the privilege of sharing my day of birth with that of Regan’s assassination attempt, and the following honor of being born in the same hospital that he was taken to.
I’m a Christian, looking to eventually serve full time in Christian pastoral service. Currently I volunteer-lead a small, but growing, internet ministry outreach to the furry fandom. We consider it real world preparatory work before Bible college and seminary.
Speaking of education, I’ve almost finished a physics degree. I say almost, as I needed to set that aside for a few years while I got my debts and other problems under control. It’s been a blessing though, since now I have almost a decade of various customer service and life experience under my belt.
I’m learning web design, Greek and Latin on the side, among other things and always have a few personal projects going in the background. My biggest dreams revolve around a pastoring a faith community and sharing life together in a large house in the city.
I like rigorous, scholarly theological works and the critical thinking and intellectual prowess of the hard sciences, but have an odd thoroughly unabashed enjoyment of magical girl genre anime and the modern video gaming subculture.
Getting mixed up with my mother’s MLM “business” years ago first awakened the entrepreneurship bug that was always sleeping inside my heritage. But it wasn’t until I realized that I wanted to be in Christian service, and that I needed to be more available to help my friends that I first seriously considered having my own business adventure. Every time I’ve worked for someone else, I’ve been grateful for the income and for the social interaction, but at the same time, I have had to, out of necessity, shut out the folks that I wanted to serve. It meant turning off my phone, or working behind a firewall or spending hours a day divorced from the people I loved the most.
I can’t remember how many times when I could not just be there for a grieving friend, or help celebrate with a friend who was rejoicing.
I’ve always been good with words and have always enjoyed learning about new things. So even though it’s been about a decade in the making, a decade of starting and putting on hold my college career, being foolish with my spending, and very bachelor-ly with not keeping the big picture in mind, I now have my freelancing career started and already backed by good deal of life experience in all the ways that anyone needs for a successful.
I currently live in a Clarksville, Tennessee, helping my parents as they prepare for retirement. By day I juggle the the responsibilities of a new freelance writing company with my mundane job of ambulance billing work; and by night strives to make the realms of Vana’diel and furry fandom a better place.