A Blog About Art Making and Life Making and Getting Better at Both

Jan 29, 20235 min read

Getting Yourself Published

Self-publishing through Amazon's KDP is a good practice activity for creatives. Start simply to see if you find your flow.

Jan 8, 20233 min read

I don't know what to write

To be creative in the new year, focus on learning and practicing. Let go of originality. It doesn't exist.

Dec 22, 20222 min read

Liberated Multipotentialite

While writing my last blog post about the artfulness of soap making, I learned a new word: multipotentialite. The simplest definition of...

Dec 11, 20223 min read

Is soapmaking art?

For reasons I can't explain (or at least, I won't take the time to over-analyze and explain right now), it's important to me to call...

Nov 8, 20222 min read

Baseball and elections

This was originally published November 12, 2016. It's one of my favorite posts so I'm sharing it again on this election day when Herschel...

Nov 4, 20224 min read

Dave Grohl, Artist

One of the books I listened to over the summer was Dave Grohl's memoir, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music. Grohl is a man in his...

May 7, 20222 min read

The hummingbirds are here

A red-necked hummingbird (meaning it's neck is literally a red color, not that it's an object of a Jeff Foxworthy joke) peeked in the...

Apr 14, 20222 min read

And for my next act...

What do you want to be when you grow up? That’s a question we’re asked from the moment we’re able to comprehend the concept of growing...

Apr 9, 20223 min read

The trouble with brilliance

This post was originally published in 2013, on my forty-seventh birthday. Today, nearly nine years later, I don't want to say that some...

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