2 minLiving in Alignment ExerciseWe all have life values- those characteristics in life that are important to us and cause us to feel fulfilled, in-tune, and happy. When...
3 minMinimalism and CreativityI recently moved. I don’t move often partly because I hate it. It takes so much out of me and wrecks my creativity. Is that an introvert...
2 minWhat’s so important about inspiration?Creatives talk a lot about inspiration- what it is, how to keep it, where to get it, what inspires them, and so on. But I’m not sure...
3 minBooks on creativity that I’m currently loving (and what I want to read next)I LOVE reading books about art and creativity. Generally, I come away feeling so inspired and full of new ideas. But there is something...
3 minKeeping ideas in the open“The thing about records was that they didn’t feel like closed ideas. They were ideas you could open and ideas you could use. And that’s...
2 minMaking creating a daily habit“Building a body of work (or a life) is all about the slow accumulation of a day’s worth of effort over time.” –Austin Kleon I started a...
2 minThe freedom of creative work and entrepreneurshipI home-school my children. We don’t get up at 6, eat breakfast, get dressed, and start school by 7:20 like the other kids in my...
1 minThoughts for my younger self and to my children. Part 1Your job doesn’t define who you are but I hope you always get to do work you love. Art is that thing that helps you express yourself,...
4 minFacing the fear of joy and restThe more I talk to people the more I realize that many of us have a difficult time with rest and joy. We have trouble feeling joy fully....
4 minDon’t Let Fear Kill Your DreamI’ve decided to start making videos. As a matter of fact- I started. My first video is down below! I’m kind of an introvert so that...
3 minLoving intensely but with boundaries- one artist’s thoughts“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join...
3 minArt as Confession“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole...
1 minFinding my wayThough I’ve still been actively posting on social media, I’ve been quiet on the blog lately. At some point during the fall, I lost my...
3 minSome of my favorite current photographers: Volume 1Photography has been a love of mine for as long as I can remember. My love for it grew while taking a photography class in high school...
3 minThe art of memorializing“Photography is inescapably a memorial art.” -Teju Cole When my youngest son builds something with Lego’s, he is always so proud of his...