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Living in Alignment Exercise

We all have life values- those characteristics in life that are important to us and cause us to feel fulfilled, in-tune, and happy. When...

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Minimalism and Creativity

I 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...

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What’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...

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Books 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...

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Keeping 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...

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Making 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...

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The freedom of creative work and entrepreneurship

I 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...

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Thoughts for my younger self and to my children. Part 1

Your 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 min

Facing the fear of joy and rest

The 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 min

Don’t Let Fear Kill Your Dream

I’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 min

Loving 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 min

Art 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 min

Finding my way

Though 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 min

Some of my favorite current photographers: Volume 1

Photography 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 min

The 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...

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