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Category: Creativity

Creativity

Collections of an art dilettante

I had a high school art teacher whom I used to bump into in my 20’s say to me, “I’m so sorry I suggested you go to that…

March 26, 2024July 13, 2025 · 3 min read

Creativity

Calling all Creators

Our children need our protection not infantilization. It’s time for creators to stop producing trite, dopamine-drippy, algorithmically-oriented content, and offer instead true stories that count. Like family origin…

March 2, 2024March 27, 2024 · 1 min read

Creativity

NFT-y

Back in 2021, I woke up with a start one night, read a random article about NFTs, and set about this new art project. It’s not over yet,…

January 1, 2024June 25, 2024 · 2 min read

Creativity

Reprise from ’99 – Top Ten Ways to Ease into Effortlessness

Waaayyy back in the day, I was a life coach with only a handful of clients and an overwhelming desire to churn out hundreds of articles. Most of…

October 7, 2023October 7, 2023 · 3 min read

Creativity

Branding is dead.

Never underestimate the power of a message said many different ways. You can more effectively move people if you decentralize the messaging and tap human passions instead of…

June 8, 2023June 10, 2023 · 5 min read

Creativity

passive income / passive outcomes

If you are like me and have many interests, maybe sometimes you go “all in” one on project, then drift off a bit toward the next thing, rinse…

June 3, 2023July 11, 2024 · 2 min read

Creativity

See something, say something

My mom has always been an awesome writer. She went back to school when I was 10.  Her professors fawned over her writing which raised money, started programs…

June 2, 2023October 26, 2023 · 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

Best of Mommess

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

Best of Mommess

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

Creativity

Vision 2022

Ever notice how every time a horrible or seemingly unexpected thing occurs, someone finds some sci-fi book* or episode of The Simpsons** that “predicted” it? This morning I…

July 17, 2020June 3, 2022 · 3 min read

Body & Health

Dart Dart Dart

Dart. Dart. Dart. Rest. Dart. Dart. Dart. Finger, thumb moving. Eyes darting. Soul wondering. Entertainment! A Life! Exciting! Surprising!. Odd. Outrageous. Horrible. Sad. Scroll. Share. Share. Share. Smirk.…

January 6, 2020November 15, 2022 · 1 min read

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