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A Head with a Heart: What is Emotional Intelligence?

In my late 20s, I supported homeless youth in Seattle, WA, as a case manager. I had transitioned from teaching first grade, and the skill...

Manage Your Creative Projects Using a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Are you being swallowed by a creative project? Do you need to find a better tracking system for your project? Is a to-do list not working...

Embracing Difficult Conversations

As creative hot messes, we manage difficult conversations all the time. Whether it’s disputing contracts, quarreling over creative...

Book Review: Pamela Wilson Wants You To Blog

Are you unsure how to share your creative work online? Do you need a website? A blog? Or both? And how do you measure online success?...

Organize Your Creative Projects with a Beginning, Middle, and End

I teach project management courses for STEM-B college students and my introductory lesson details the lifespan of a project. Whether...

Show Your Work With Timelines

My interest in digital storytelling stems from reading The New York Times's articles with animated effects and nifty scrolling techniques...

Artist Activism with The Center for Cultural Power

Note: This post is a "check in" with anti-racist rhetoric and promises we made in response to Black Lives Matter and/or in service of...

Childhood Idols: Kermie

Funk be damned, Rainbow Connection sung by Kermit "Kermie" the Frog is magic. That's all. Happy Friday! Wellness-ish-ness is a blog for...

50 Best Albums

Every morning, I wake up, make coffee, feed the dog, check on my garden, then settle on the couch and listen to one album. Each day....

Grow My Pretties!: Gardening & Wellness

Gardening as/for wellness is something I've dabbled in here and there, mostly growing potted herbs (lemon thyme is the $h!X), but this...

Poetic Prose: Lyrics II

Building from my previous post Poetic Prose: Lyrics, several years ago Letters of Note highlighted a correspondence between two World War...

The Role of Artists in Social and Cultural Change

Creative Capital hosted a juicy topic about race and class in the art world during a pandemic. Facilitators Favianna Rodriguez and Julio...

“The Cult of Busy”

Pausing work life (even for a quick camping trip) feeds the body with wholesome moments like the one I photographed when the sun rose...

Creating Successful Streaming Content

Okay, I swear I'm not stalking SassyBlack (see my previous nine billion posts mentioning her) but she recently led a webinar on how to...

Made During A Pandemic

That's the catch phrase for 2020: Made During A Pandemic. During a lyric writing course with SassyBlack, the class was hesitant to...

Graphic Artist Malika Favre

I'm absolutely obsessed with Malika Favre's work. I recently read a short story from The New Yorker (who uses Favre's work a lot) and one...

Poetic Prose: Lyrics

As mentioned in other posts, I'm taking Sassyblack's lyric writing course with Hugo House and my artistic merits are being pushed into...

Life Advice from Sufjan Stevens

Directions: Rinse. Lather. Repeat.

"How Technology Literally Changes Our Brains"

Social media is a mixed blessing. On one hand, I'm able to connect with and learn from creatives around the world. And connection, above...

Outbox: June Reading

I powered through two books this month and took advantage of my week long break between academic quarters. The Last Man: After finishing...

A Beginning is Here

First of all, this sticker by Steven Paul Judd (Kiowa-Choctaw) is dope. I stuck it on the front cover of my journal and made a few...

#StoriesofStrength: Nicola Griffith

After a quick break, FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES returns with writer Nicola Griffith. Nicola reads to advocate and fundraise for Clarion West...

#PoemsofStrength: Shantell Jackson

FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES continues! Multidisciplinary artist Shantell Jackson shares a poem to advocate and fundraise for the National...

Saying 'No' When The World Calls

I've been in and out -- socially, physically, mentally, emotionally -- for several months. Clearly the weight of the world has impacted...

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