Living Gift
The world would have you believe that you are an impulse. A stomach to be fed, a reaction that cannot be contained, an urge to be...
Naming The Pain
The act of pain-suppression is never a good remedy for healing... it only makes our pain more concentrated; more acute. When you are...
How Loud Is Your Fear?
Fear of failure. Fear of being “found out”. Fear of not being as good as others think you are. Fear that you will have to try harder than...
Tug-Of-War
The Artist and the CEO are in a constant tug-of-war for my attention and affection. I like the unencumbered free-thinking idealism of...
Step Into Your Life
Wishing you could do what you see someone else doing? Do you lament that your life is not as interesting as what your “friends” portray...
Prioritizing Your Art
What are you working on today? Is it something that feeds your soul or is it a have-to-should-supposed-to-expectation-duty-obligatory-go-...
Can Your Art Speak For Itself?
Doing the work to the best of your ability and letting it stand on its own is a difficult task. We would rather give some kind of...
The Ensuing Battle
To surrender or give up? Neither one of these are particularly attractive. In each case that which we wanted is given over to something...
Creative Incarceration
I hope you’re not waiting for permission or approval for your creative expression. If so, pull up a chair and get comfortable. If the...
Tiny Little Gods
The little gods of this world make demands. They tell us what we should be doing, how we should be behaving, who we should vote for, and...