Stone skipping.

A really useful concept or thoughtful question doesn’t just sit there. It lands. And it doesn’t just land. It touches down in your consciousness and ripples out. Circles echoing circles. Reverberating. It sets off a chain of spiraling cycles that move...

Saving.

I’m recovering from my first encounter with the insanely insane number that is what I’m paying in taxes this year. We knew it would be insane, of course, just not the sum of the insanity. After five years in a growing business, this was the first year as a...

When you feel discouraged.

I’m not sure if you know Maryann. I mention her kind of a lot. She’s one of the most thoughtful and worth-listening-to people I know. Anyway, yesterday on Facebook she put out the question: When you feel discouraged about your art or your business, what...

Except.

Something I find both incredibly frustrating and empowering at the same time is how there is at least one exception to just about everything I think is true. So. No big surprise, but I’ve been using this thing of finding the exceptions as part of the...

Fractal Flowers

Everything is connected. At least, theoretically. And even if it isn’t, we can pretend (or assume) that within the world of you and your you-ness: Connections are everywhere. This comes in handy whenever things get overwhelming. Or when your to-do list is...
The Fluent Self