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Category: Mommess

Culture

Reconciling Paradox – an Artist’s Way

Art CV at bottom of this page, includes cyber art citations back to 1997-2003. Here’s another installment of my younger self aiming to figure stuff out, and simply…

March 17, 2024December 26, 2024 · 6 min read

Family

Teddy Talk

Around 5 years ago, we needed to put down our dog Teddy. My son just today asked me where Teddy really is. At the time we had told…

March 5, 2024March 26, 2024 · 8 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

Culture

Slay the Protégé

In myth and in life, Proteges slaying Mentors is an age-old archetypal pattern, and one that represents an energetic exchange that can be uniquely helpful in a protege’s…

February 28, 2024March 18, 2024 · 8 min read

Body & Health

hitting the speed limit

Tomorrow I turn 55, and I kind of love this age and all it represents. This birthday reminds me of my old restaurant days when I waited tables…

February 27, 2024February 28, 2024 · 5 min read

Culture

Stories v Stats

Assumptions, click bait, and real communication across the Internet: stats are servants to storytelling Most of us have been conditioned to chase likes, loves, follows, and comments on…

February 17, 2024August 4, 2026 · 3 min read

Mommess

Being Right vs. Judgement

In my Buddhism practice, there is a practice statement that has been gnawing away at me. It’s phrased so benignly, but the implications have been earth-shattering for me.…

February 11, 2024September 3, 2025 · 3 min read

Family

Personal transformation is the only miracle recognized as such by the Buddha

Stories from mine: When I feel raw and tired, I call my Aunt BahBah – the peace wrangler of the family. Her last name is Lamb, and sheep,…

February 4, 2024February 6, 2024 · 9 min read

when you come down to it, the only ground you stand on is the ground you stand on
Body & Health

Practice Notes – Jan 19

I’ve been taking Buddhism classes with Jungto Society, and I love them. The classes teach about the history, the philosophy, and the principles of Buddhism, but mostly they…

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 · 2 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

abstract root art of a woman reading or writing a book by EM Matteson
Coaching

Archive: Life Coaching Articles

Yes, there are archives inside archives. lol In the interest of preserving more embarrassing, and sometimes helpful, writings below are archival links to my old “Ideas of the…

December 29, 2023April 21, 2026 · 1 min read

Mommess

A wake of awakening

This is how I used to envision a life well lived: that every day, a person could leave behind them ripples of enlightenment, that would wash into realization…

December 26, 2023April 13, 2024 · 9 min read

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