Creativity Archives — EMMpress words and images for mindful humans Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:59:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://www.emmpress.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Screenshot-2026-03-10-at-12.16.43-PM-32x32.png Creativity Archives — EMMpress 32 32 Hope in coping mechanisms https://www.emmpress.com/hope-in-coping-mechanisms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hope-in-coping-mechanisms Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:39:52 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=17144 Today is Easter Sunday, and I’m sitting at dining table, laptop nestled among mountains of near-folded clothes, purple and white towels, and underwear. I’m also sneaking in some…

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]]> On making love, not war, and the silent majority https://www.emmpress.com/on-making-love-not-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-making-love-not-war Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:29:06 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=15975 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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]]> A Visual Peace: Art as Alchemy https://www.emmpress.com/a-visual-peace-art-as-alchemy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-visual-peace-art-as-alchemy Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:50:09 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=15324 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…

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]]> Artist’s Confidential https://www.emmpress.com/artists-confidential/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=artists-confidential Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:55:26 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=8792 AKA pulling apart a piece of art, with some web-weaving via inappropriate footnoting. This entire piece is about a rapidly made Instagram reel (with high hopes of it…

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]]> Matunuck https://www.emmpress.com/matunuck/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=matunuck Sat, 30 Mar 2024 14:23:25 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=4870 Escaping the sleepover fallouttwo extra boys. Legends lp playing then. And now too. The Digital. Quiet happy. Then. and video games. and airy mattress pushed up on it’s…

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]]> hitting the speed limit https://www.emmpress.com/hitting-the-speed-limit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hitting-the-speed-limit Tue, 27 Feb 2024 22:02:15 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=3785 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…

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]]> Survival is a fast car https://www.emmpress.com/survival-is-a-fast-car/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=survival-is-a-fast-car Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:17:21 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2891 On a recent talk the speaker asked her audience how many were “in survival mode.” One quarter of the hands went up.* I found this revelatory, not because…

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]]> passive income / passive outcomes https://www.emmpress.com/passive-outcomes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=passive-outcomes Sat, 03 Jun 2023 20:10:59 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2774 If you are like me and have many interests, maybe sometimes you go “all in” one on project, then drift off a bit toward the next thing, rinse…

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]]> Vision 2022 https://www.emmpress.com/vision-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vision-2022 Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:58:45 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=2041 Ever notice how every time a horrible or seemingly unexpected thing occurs, someone finds some sci-fi book* or episode of The Simpsons** that “predicted” it? This morning I…

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]]> Sinking Gifts. Rising Queen https://www.emmpress.com/sinking-gifts-rising-queen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sinking-gifts-rising-queen Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:55:03 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1747 I have been prone to depression, as have many of the women in my family. As are, no doubt, many others who are reading this. I have also…

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]]> Four Styles of Defining A Life https://www.emmpress.com/four-styles-of-defining-a-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=four-styles-of-defining-a-life Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:15:39 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1740 I wrote a chunk of a self-help book over a decade ago. It described the four styles people use to find — and define — meaning in their lives.…

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]]> The superpower I wish I had https://www.emmpress.com/the-superpower/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-superpower Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:59:39 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1677 My daughter asked me my superpower and origin story. The first thing that came to mind was a ball, that came into being by the beauty of the…

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]]> Anxiety Sideliner https://www.emmpress.com/anxiety-sideliner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anxiety-sideliner Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:23:53 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1428 There have been a few times in my life when anxiety attacks have changed the direction of my life. I think now, that I’m probably not the only…

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]]> Write what you want to learn https://www.emmpress.com/write-what-you-want-to-learn/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=write-what-you-want-to-learn Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:33:34 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1383 Many years ago, I trained to become a life coach. I went to conference after conference, took 2 years of tele-classes and put myself “out there” as a…

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]]> Thank you Carrie https://www.emmpress.com/thank-you-carrie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thank-you-carrie Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:41:41 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=924 Take your broken heart, and make it art -Carrie Fisher to Meryl Streep

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]]> Rosie says…. https://www.emmpress.com/rosie-says/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rosie-says Sun, 04 Dec 2016 14:44:32 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=799 The post Rosie says…. appeared first on EMMpress.

]]> Gold Dust Woman/American Woman https://www.emmpress.com/saying-it-in-art-again/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=saying-it-in-art-again Sat, 03 Dec 2016 14:42:54 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=795  

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]]> When you can’t say it in words https://www.emmpress.com/when-you-cant-say-it-in-words/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=when-you-cant-say-it-in-words Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:41:35 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=792 … say it in art.

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]]> watching water drops turn to birds https://www.emmpress.com/watching-water-drops-turn-to-birds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=watching-water-drops-turn-to-birds Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:00:04 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=610 So, I’ve been missing poetry in my life, or more like, missing the poetry of life.  I used to get my fill by watching period pieces (think Jane…

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]]> Empowering questions* https://www.emmpress.com/empowering-questions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=empowering-questions Thu, 14 May 2015 16:05:21 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=582 I’ve got no idea what to write today, so perhaps it is time to feed my mind some new questions to chew on.  Such as;  What can I…

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]]> The Inside on Fight or Flight https://www.emmpress.com/fight-or-flight/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fight-or-flight Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:43:32 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=523 If you’ve ever had a panic attack, you know what the physical “flight or fight response” feels like. The rapid heart rate, dark, narrow vision and focused, simplified…

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]]> Beauty for the highly sensitive person https://www.emmpress.com/beauty-for-the-highly-sensitive-person/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beauty-for-the-highly-sensitive-person Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:09:29 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=272 I’ve recently seen a very interesting, thought provoking, yet wildly violent and dystopian movie, and I’m not sure that was a good idea. Like many people, I’m pretty…

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]]> THAT kind of mom https://www.emmpress.com/that-kind-of-mom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=that-kind-of-mom Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:55:34 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=69 I hoped I’d be one of those awesome moms that was super-conscious, sensitive and mindful, until I realized I was becoming one of those “literary” moms. You know,…

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