Language
What do you call utopia?
With Sunday Morning Hope by David Byrne and Patti Smith I don’t care for the word utopia. I feel it’s been so overused for so long that my…
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Culture
Regress, or Congress?
In 2016, I wrote letters to a number of GOP Senators asking them to hold the line against the destructive tendencies of Trump. It seemed clear that his…
Mommess
Stone Soup
Email Newsletter published 11/4/2025 is here.
Creativity
One-Third School, Two-Thirds Sky
I’ve had so many things on my mind lately, and much of it related to the sky: blues, clouds, galaxies, light and dark matter, and accelerating expanses. And…
Mommess
What I know about marketing
Good marketing is not a getting activity. It’s a giving one. To do marketing well, you must give first. And give often to new people. And I don’t…
Creativity
Road Songs, Libraries, and Hard Work Hassles
After dropping my 15 year old at drivers ed, I drove around listening to classic rock and landed at the library. Before I forget, Bob Seeger is an…
Creativity
Here’s my story (and I’m not sticking to it)
I’ve been in between things for some time now. Like in my career. And it is glorious. I mean, literally glorious. Each day feels like an adventure, my…
Mommess
Polarity: a mechanism of expansion
My father, a man of few words to me, once said our culture was bipolar. His colleague provided a wide-eyed surprised look and consenting chuckle. I remembering witnessing…
Mommess
What changes when you have kids
So yeah, this avant-blog has the word “mom” in it, which probably makes you think that somehow it’s going to be all beautiful beige housekeeping tips, photos of…
Mommess
Annnd today, there’s peace-ish in the Middle East
[originally published in newsletter on 10/14/2025] My friend is dying and everyone except a rogue lung doctor is doing their job. Well, actually maybe he’s did a different…
Culture
Anchors Away
There was a time when women undergoing spiritual transformation could take a vow of stability of place, and hole up – practically – in a cell in a…
Creativity
recent visual work
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