October is the time to set goals for 2021. Not December. Certainly not January 2021. And NOW is the time to assess goals we set for this year. Are you on tra...

◊ ◊ ◊ “Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don’t make it junk.” – Leonard Cohen

“I enjoyed myself more than ever because I was catering to a natural strength of one-on-one engagement.” In 2007, I helmed website development for a financia...

“[The residual purpose of art is] purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmaton of life – not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest ...

From the young adult novel, Saturday, the Twelfth of October by Norma Fox Mazer: “On an afternoon in October, walking home from school, Zan Ford played the e...

From The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter “I was born a knot like my mother and her mother before her. Picture three women with their torsos twisted like thick ...

“I am called a movie producer…but really what I am is a storyteller,” writes Brian Grazer in his book A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. “A couple ...

Meet the artist leaving positive notes for strangers around London. Too many talents remain hidden behind fear of ridicule. Andy Leek, Notes to Strangers A ...

…practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for “instructions.” ◊ ◊ ◊ Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons f...

In these 10, one-minute videos you have everything you need to start – and keep writing – your memoir. Letterip!

“She’s full of herself.” Meant as a slur about one who holds herself in high esteem. I say we should be full of ourselves, all of us. Filled up, nourished an...

Helen asked if I would circle journey with her. Circle journeying is an interactive art journal traded back and forth until complete. I had already committed...

◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone. Billy Cox ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ Be one of the few wh...

After 58 revolutions around the sun I have a broader, more contemplative view of birthdays, not only those that fall on December 25. “How would you like to b...

◊ ◊ ◊ Get unreasonable and everything’s possible; if you get reasonable you are going to have to lower your standards and drop down to what everyone expects....

◊ ◊ ◊ If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas Edison ◊ ◊ ◊ On day 13 of a 14-day hiking trip across Mo...

Thou Shalt Not Script, Production Design, and then Rehearse Scenes from Imagined Slights and Conflicts. ◊ ◊ ◊ Thou Shalt Not Plan for Disappointment. ◊ ◊ ◊ T...

I’ve just completed my Birthday Sabbatical. From October 31st to January 20th of the following year I celebrate my latest revolution around the Sun. That it ...

In 1958, celebrated fitness guru Jack Lalanne appeared on the televised game show, You Bet Your Life, hosted by comedian Groucho Marx: Groucho: How old are y...