In 2003, my mother Rose opened The Happy Hogan right here in Cave Creek, AZ. Between her jewelry and dad's metal and plaster wall art the two of them were able to provide themselves with a very stable living full of laughs and lots of memories. Through these years she became a staple of Cave Creek while running the smallest store in town. From my perspective, I owed everything to them for providing my sisters and I with a wonderful childhood, and I didn't want to have regrets about not spending enough time with them as we all got older. At the same time I started helping mom with the jewelry and dad with his metal and plaster art in his art studio during my free time. As mom and dad got older they asked me if I could help them around the shop every now and then, and as more time passed on I spent more and more time there.

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