Creativity
On making love, not war, and the silent majority
When I first heard Double Fantasy at 11, I knew I’d heard something new. A collaboration with two unique voices: one from the West, one from the East.…
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“Came by it honestly”
Fiction vs non and protecting people and privacy while writing. My mother in law used this expression a while back and I found it immediately empowering. That’s because…
Culture
when practicality looks like magic: 222
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” -Arthur C. Clarke Years ago I was contracted to coordinate and improve the digital marketing for an explosively growing outfit.…
Creativity
A Visual Peace: Art as Alchemy
Creative work is alchemy. It is an honest process, that sometimes culminates something that can touch the honest places in other people too. Art, music, poetry, and stories…
Mommess
Long a$$ rambling tax ‘tip’
Hi Friends, The 2025 tax code allows filers to write off up to 25K in tips as long as their adjusted gross income isn’t above $150,000 ($300,000 if…
History
Why try bird’s eye?
On the art & science of mapping, and our physical positioning in relationship to the places we depict. Maps may have come about, in part, to verify that…
Mommess
practice makes a practice
Doing things and making things makes me feel alive. So to practice feeling alive, I need to be in motion, or at least making something for the sake…
Coaching
Living Legacy™ and loving turns of phrase
I love turns of phrase, especially those that are, by their nature, contradictory. Living Legacy is one like this. Legacy, by definition, has to do with what you…
Language
Audience
A term of endearment post. If you can feel positioning and motion inherent in words, then you may also experience how your point of view can flip with…
Mommess
fun with official photos
This is the first post of a series called What Did You Learn And How?1 (WDYLAH) This series is inspired by Oprah Winfrey’s frequent call out to a…
Language
Perspicacious: a term of endearment
I heard this word for perhaps the first time in a podcast, and fell in love. The word delighted me because it condensed into one word what I’d…
Mommess
Wonder
[originally published as newsletter on 11/24/2025] I’ve come to know that we can experience beauty and wonder in everyday life by tapping childhood curiosity, and gently holding those…