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Category: Best of Mommess

Best of Mommess

Sushi Bake Beliefs

On Food Culture, Balls of Beliefs, Paradox, Music, and Menopause Yesterday my daughter found a recipe for a Sushi Bake, and I was immediately skeptical. Who wants to…

March 28, 2026March 28, 2026 · 3 min read

Artwork by EM Matteson, looks like abstract figure
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Ai Ai (for now)

[Update 12/21/20255] I’ve stopped using AI as an administrative tool, because, it is has been more trouble than it has provided innovative solutions, AND it uses ridiculous amount…

November 15, 2025December 21, 2025 · 6 min read

By cmglee - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=166646811
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Concise

I made a short 16mm film named Concise. It could be called an avant garde film and it was engrossing to make. I made it as a follow…

July 13, 2025July 13, 2025 · 1 min read

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Frequent, see?

A term of endearment post on Frequency My social media is full of coaches, teachers, and offerings which speak to the power of manifestation using frequencies. The number…

April 26, 2025April 27, 2025 · 5 min read

#PhoneMarkupArt by EMWe Art
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Surveillance is a feeling

And since it has no love in it, it doesn’t feel good: a note to employers (and data brokers) in a digital age. “Peering In” photo of Artist…

January 6, 2025June 12, 2025 · 4 min read

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Artist’s Confidential

AKA pulling apart a piece of art, with some web-weaving via inappropriate footnoting. This entire piece is about a rapidly made Instagram reel (with high hopes of it…

December 3, 2024December 3, 2024 · 5 min read

Screenshot of a gallery I will never show you instead inserted as a single image for sake of digital integrity
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Seeing: a creative’s guide to the senses

philosophical practices in nature -|- the art of trusting your senses The idea to put together this series came this morning in the woods. Most days, I walk…

September 13, 2024September 17, 2024 · 5 min read

Best of Mommess

Tracking Freedom

Tracking is an ancient and natural art that brings the tracker physically into the pattern of nature, by materially connecting the seeker and the sought. When tracking has…

August 19, 2024September 4, 2024 · 3 min read

Best of Mommess

Doing it ‘nice and rough’ – Tina Turner is my kind of Buddha

I have fifteen minutes to write this. I know Buddhsim works for me, and I want to practice every day. I’ve tried apps, books, meditation retreats and everything…

May 31, 2023February 5, 2025 · 2 min read

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Ode to my mom’s memory

“I’m living two timelines moving in different directions.”  I sat up in bed and said that to my husband last night. I’ve been plagued by night terrors for…

May 25, 2023June 25, 2024 · 4 min read

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Being a creative – how does art come through?

I wrote something the other day, and it was pretty honest and it was good. So I read it over and over again. I remember when I was…

May 16, 2023August 10, 2023 · 5 min read

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Mothers make matter

Becoming a mother has been a ride. I’ve learned to live with less sleep, half-baked plans that fall apart the other half of the time, and constant pings…

May 16, 2023June 2, 2023 · 2 min read

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