Body & Health
So, I’m at the grocery store, not buying eggs
I’m seeing young parents wheeling around their kids in carts, and think: I did that. Yeah, I had kids, am still raising them, and I deserve some kind…
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Category: Mommess
Culture
Diversity
If we experience life through a lens where the people we deal with seem most like us, it’s easy to think we have a leg up on navigating…
Coaching
What if I can’t…
What to do when your values thwart change, and a footnote about how no-brand branding is already here. Ever feel woefully self-aware and stuck all at once? I’ve…
Creativity
Rebellion | emergence from dark into light
Why new voices from the subconscious matter to all of us. I admire teenagers and young people who rail against every day culture and bring new music and…
Creativity
Terms of Endearment – Patron
And notes on creativity as a practice. Patron = Pat Ron (an additional pat on the head to everyone who supports the work of artists) Yesterday, while discussing…
Mommess
Mouse, Mystery, Mouse
Subtitled: Lovers of the Lbrary. Today, I worked at the library, where I could set up my laptop and not get tempted to eat lots of pastries, like…
Body & Health
Nurse Maid Bird | Movie Mode
I shouldn’t be happy when my 15 year old daughter is home sick, but I am. I delight in getting to take care of her because there are…
Culture
“That doesn’t happen here”
Feminine Power in the Face of Fighting: A Waitress Story. At 22, I started working as a cocktail waitress and bartender at a jazz club in New York…
Creativity
Terms of Endearment – Article
Article = Art + Miracle I’ve been at a loss how to brand myself as a maker of digital stuffs, so I’m not going to do it.1 And…
Culture
Advertising & Influence – it’s an energy thing
While many of us assume emotions like happiness are the best feelings to evoke in advertising, it is not the case. It’s actually energy (positive or negative) that…
Body & Health
A Prompt for Nature Knowledge
Some days I walk through the woods and wonder “what is nature telling me today?” The answers are always simple. Nature tells me that old needles fall off,…
Culture
Efficiency: a dangerous game
By design it benefits only a few. Oh my goodness have I loved efficiency. I drank the Koolaid early, and developed my own flavors of fast-to-faster to boot.…