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Tag: Writing

Language

Writing for focus & fittings

Who else makes things for the sake of focus? In my world, the process of writing gives me a coherent sense of thought, a long and lovely sound…

February 1, 2026February 1, 2026 · 4 min read

Artwork by EM Matteson, looks like abstract figure
Best of Mommess

Ai Ai (for now)

[Update 12/21/20255] I’ve stopped using AI as an administrative tool, because, it is has been more trouble than it has provided innovative solutions, AND it uses ridiculous amount…

November 15, 2025December 21, 2025 · 6 min read

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…

July 1, 2025July 2, 2025 · 4 min read

phone markup art of an abstract bird on pink background by Elizabeth Matteson
Creativity

Feedback is free

On a lovely 15 mile (!) hike with a good friend yesterday I learned about feedback. Specifically, that some folks seek it and some don’t. I do. I…

June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 · 2 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

Best of Mommess

Frequent, see?

A term of endearment post on Frequency My social media is full of coaches, teachers, and offerings which speak to the power of manifestation using frequencies. The number…

April 26, 2025April 27, 2025 · 5 min read

Creativity

Titles First (and foremost?)

I saw a delightful and giddily relaxed David Bowie1 in an old video clip saying something so true: artists are more comfortable describing their process than what things…

November 10, 2024November 10, 2024 · 2 min read

em dash and middot are some personal faves in the world of special characters
Mommess

em dash — • middot

I love punctuation. It has as much to do with the shape and positioning of the glyphs in relationship to words nearby as anything else. Visual, not just…

June 25, 2024September 24, 2024 · 1 min read

Creativity

Reprise from ’99 – Top Ten Ways to Ease into Effortlessness

Waaayyy back in the day, I was a life coach with only a handful of clients and an overwhelming desire to churn out hundreds of articles. Most of…

October 7, 2023October 7, 2023 · 3 min read

Creativity

See something, say something

My mom has always been an awesome writer. She went back to school when I was 10.  Her professors fawned over her writing which raised money, started programs…

June 2, 2023October 26, 2023 · 3 min read

Culture

Black Hat Bots & Mad Gratitude

I have 15 minutes to write this. Black Hat Part Some hack-bot came through this website and inserted viagra ads into some of my paragraphs. It’s not dangerous…

June 1, 2023June 2, 2023 · 2 min read

Creativity

Vision 2022

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…

July 17, 2020June 3, 2022 · 3 min read

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