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…
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Category: Writing
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…
Culture
Admitting Conflation
See, I’m on a self-study immersion in the English language and American culture so as to become a better writer. And my course is pretty sloppy and more…
Research & Development
When a mound of sand sends you to the stratosphere
Originally published as newsletter 09/24/2025 This photo above is of sand mound about 10 inches wide, and reminds me of hurricane clouds. In this photo I also see…
Research & Development
pushy, derivative, thieving, lying, child AI.
Ok, first: forgive this title. Yes, it’s here to grab your attention, but has less vitriol behind it than perhaps it sounds. Truth is, whether I like it…
Body & Health
You won’t all get this, and that’s okay
Menopause is like a pack of wolves in a bitch’s clothing. So fun to play with tools like Facebook color boxes, then turn them on their head by…
Family
The inhumanity of over-helpfulness
In my digital world, where AI is proliferating, technological “helpfulness” can sanitize language between humans to the point where it is blocking real human-to-human communication. Let me explain.…
Family
Good Mourning
Originally Published Via newsletter on 8/5/2025 I’ve been thinking a of writing a series of good morning letters in honor of my mom, who was Yelp before there…
Best of Mommess
Concise
I made a short 16mm film named Concise. It could be called an avant garde film and it was engrossing to make. I made it as a follow…
Mommess
Believing, Knowing and a Timeless Smile
The power of acknowledgement & questions for deep, time-released understanding. Sitting outside at a small red cafe table on Laguardia Place in New York City, Jim Smith looked…
Creativity
Becoming a writer
Play on words, Play with words: what do you want to know about you? My first poem, which I can recite by heart, woke me up. I wrote…
Creativity
Process sans plans & perfection
[originally published in weekly newsletter] I feel at a loss of what to say here today, but my hands love to write, and I made a commitment to…