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Creativity

Lady of a non-specific location

Our most aligned vantage point exists in our own inner space. But if you also see yourself in part through others’ eyes things can get complicated. I think…

June 9, 2025June 9, 2025 · 7 min read

Mommess

The Next Generation

Today, I did something out of character. I showed up to volunteer for a PTO thing at my kids’ former elementary school. For the record, my kids do…

June 7, 2025June 7, 2025 · 2 min read

abstract face with glasses
Culture

Service Breakdown

Here’s a little “waitress confidential” for you. Yes, that kind of service. I’ve always felt that restaurants raise the finest in service-minded, quick-thinking individuals  in an environment not…

June 6, 2025June 6, 2025 · 3 min read

Edmund Dulac.BryanBot at en.wikipedia.Later version(s) were uploaded by DreamGuy at en.wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creativity

Nunsense

When I was 16, a defecting nun came to stay with us. She was young and full of verve and vigor. She had been running the church-y teenager…

May 31, 2025May 31, 2025 · 4 min read

photo copyright © Kevin Schafer / DanitaDelimont.com
Mommess

The book in me

I think we all have a book in us. One that includes deep themes and our ancestral family mind. Includes thoughts we can access via time to intermingle…

May 28, 2025May 28, 2025 · 3 min read

Coaching

making one’s own language

Correspondence, energy, and how to gain self-awareness through making your language, your way. Actually, I’m working on more of symbol set, but that’s semantics for you. This SymbolWorkTM…

May 25, 2025May 26, 2025 · 5 min read

Mommess

Relatable-ish: Mourning & Anticipation

I’ve been struggling to relate to the folks in my daily life, because I’ve stopped trying to “fit” into a role that I thought was easily understood in…

May 22, 2025May 23, 2025 · 5 min read

Mommess

The day you realize

In the past few years, I found myself saying lightheartedly, “you know, I am the center of my own universe. So are you. No one can be anything…

May 20, 2025May 21, 2025 · 8 min read

Mommess

IT

I have had a love-hate relationship with the word “it” in all of its permutations. There, I admitted it. In my book, it is not exactly a Term…

May 17, 2025May 20, 2025 · 4 min read

Mommess

Veiling & The Blues

On my walk today, I found a painted blue trail blaze on the ground. The tree it had been painted on had been stripped of much of its…

May 15, 2025May 17, 2025 · 8 min read

Coaching

Judging or Perceiving | Collector or Renunciate?

Dualistic Mindsets in Myers Briggs and other such things I have a judgy mind. And if you’ve done a Myers-Briggs test and landed squarely with a “J” in…

May 12, 2025May 12, 2025 · 7 min read

Creativity

Why I make my work freely available

plus a touch of fundraising I believe in the importance of public institutions, especially Public Libraries, Public Education, and Public Art. And I understand the value of artists…

May 11, 2025May 13, 2025 · 5 min read

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