Five is for the five year plan!*

I am not a planning sort of person. But when I first started my company, I read seven hundred and fifty million websites about writing business plans. And at least ten library books and back issues of a bunch of online noozletters. The majority of these expressed the...

Catching the next wave.

My friend Michael has this theory. It’s been at least a decade since he explained it to me so there’s pretty much no way I can do justice to its twisted brilliance/hilarity, but the basic idea is this: Sometimes we fall out of synch with the world. Or with...

The Playground!

So after all the complicated, agonizing, beautiful process of giving birth to a tiny sweet thing, I have been slow about sharing pictures. Mostly because my lovely Playground baby keeps being added to. Latest addition: a crazed pirate monkey on a tree! But also...

Metaphor Mouse goes on Skabbatical!

Background: the metaphor technique is something I’ve adapted from Suzette Haden Elgin’s teachings. It’s an amazing tool for destuckifying. It’s also how I discovered that I work on a pirate ship and defeated the hackers. And cured my fear of...

Bits and pieces of information.

So last week at Camp Biggification (which was amazing, by the way), I inflicted some serious Shiva Nata on everyone. Epiphanies were had. Worlds were shaken. The usual. And we took a lot of notes. Here are some of my scribbled notes (the ones I’ve been able to...
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