August DIY and Business Book Club 2016
A few years ago we started this yearly summer tradition. A few of us meet together on a Sunday night, and spend a few hours catching up with each others’ lives. We always bring a dish that features bacon, and…
A few years ago we started this yearly summer tradition. A few of us meet together on a Sunday night, and spend a few hours catching up with each others’ lives. We always bring a dish that features bacon, and…
I’ve had this stamp pinned on my pinterest board for ages. Like, literally, years. It’s a very simple stamp, and every time I’m anywhere that sells stamps I look and see if I can find it. But it’s no-where to…
I can remember the first time that I ate frozen yogurt. Apparently I didn’t get out much, because it wasn’t until 1992, and when I just googled “when did frozen yogurt become popular” I found out that it started to…
“I never imagined that I’d be married to someone who reads fantasy novels,” I said to my husband last week. We were camping for my birthday on the edge of a lovely river that we’d planned on spending the day…
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about being present and how busyness is the arch enemy of presence. Being truly present is something that I have a hard time with. I’m pretty much always doing something and usually I’m doing…
A few years ago Delilah and I heard Stefan Sagmeister of Sagmeister & Walsh speak at Alt Summit and we were blown away. Sagmeister, a New York based designer shared pieces of his art exhibit/documentary The Happy Show about his…
When I was young, traveling held a mystery that surpassed my fear of flying. I loved everything about traveling, including getting to the airport early and sitting at my gate or in the airport bar and jotting down bits of…
In the nearly 13 years that I’ve been teaching craft workshops I’ve noticed one common denominator among a surprising majority of my students. Fear of making. They were able to take the leap and sign up for a class and…
When I was in high school, my friends and I pushed against anything that was popular. We were the weird artsy group of girls that wanted to be unique in a sea of striped rugby shirts, cuffed pale blue jeans…
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