How Yoga Screwed Up My Creative Life
Note: My mode for this blog is about your optimal creative workflow – not my humdrum life (You can glimpse doses of my mostly undramatic life in my personal essays). But many queries lately [...]
The Tao of Authentic Marketing for Creatives: A Roundabout Guide
1. A “media expert” said a few things yesterday that got me questioning. “Our attentions spans are shrinking,” she said, “So we need to speak in sound bites so we can speak directly [...]
How to Retrieve That Astonishing Feeling Every Day: The First Preparation
As a creative, sometimes you forget your purpose and you “to-do” more than “ta-da!” One of my clients recently lost his way and it nearly derailed his creative project. He works as a consultant [...]
Open & Nourish Your Mystery Box – Only 5 Spots Left
When I was a tow-headed boy, The Box in the Woods down the road kept my secrets. In the middle of The Woods towered a maple, an “X” carved with a butter knife in its bark. With no other kids in [...]
iWonder Tracker, Steve Jobs, RIP
The iWonder Tracker’s footprints The Mac ii – In 1985, my first one changed my college life and my writing life forever.
The Girl Effect One Spoon at a Time
1. A Girl Anita grew up in India’s caste system, poor and with limited options. So it seemed. Her parents wanted her to do what any “respectable” girl should do: Get married. Serve her man. The [...]
Should You Court Metaphor or Courage to Write Your Story?
A few months after Carol Sanford’s son Kirk died prematurely, as a writer she didn’t square off with or mine her heart, per se. She turned to her son’s astronomy notebooks. And then she felt her [...]
