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- Abstinence Doesn’t Work
- A Burning Bridge to Now-here
- Activity vs. Achievement
- Admitting Conflation
- Advertising & Influence – it’s an energy thing
- Ai Ai (for now)
- Aloft
- Alt Empress E
- always be moonlighting
- A message to my son on Mother’s Day
- an artist date: sketching with the masters
- Anchors Away
- And up we go again
- Annnd today, there’s peace-ish in the Middle East
- another aging lady post
- An unstable shame
- Anxiety Sideliner
- Aperature-clipse
- A plan for coping with inauguration weekend
- A Pledge of Human Decency
- A poem on what it feels like
- A Prompt for Nature Knowledge
- Archive: Life Coaching Articles
- Are you freaking out? Try a simple practice for sanity and strength
- A Rich Background
- Arriving by Writing
- art, science and a metaphysical bullseye
- Artful Advertising
- Artist’s Confidential
- As on the right, so on the left
- Authenticity v Indulgence
- A vision
- A wake of awakening
- A wake of awakening
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- Band of Brothers
- Beauty for the highly sensitive person
- Becoming a writer
- Beginner’s Mind & Happier Times
- Being a creative – how does art come through?
- Being Right vs. Judgement
- Believing, Knowing and a Timeless Smile
- Beyond Belief
- Black Hat Bots & Mad Gratitude
- Black Horse
- blue brain, fooled mood
- Body knowledge for the hopelessly articulate
- Branding is dead.
- Breaking the natural and mythic laws of life: a primer
- breaking through
- B Sides
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- Calling all Creators
- Calm after a storm
- Channeling
- Code me up – Complicated
- Collage, Mosaic, and Original Art
- Collections of an art dilettante
- Collector or Renunciate?, Judging or Perceiving
- Concise
- Confidence in Community
- Coping: Part II in the Working Toward Transformation series
- Culling, destruction, and birth by menopause
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- Damn, I’m sorry
- Dark dog of exhaustion
- Dart Dart Dart
- Dear Lovely L,
- Dear Ms Grace
- Dear Young Fury,
- Death Panels: brought to you by the GOP
- Deep Impact of words, asteroids, and my dad
- Deep State and Democracy
- delaborate
- Democracy cannot be managed, it must be led
- Democracy is a practice: how (and why) to do it.
- Derail Doubling Down
- Designer Questions to Engineer Endurance, Achievement, and Happiness
- digital marketing feeds the tech bro machine
- Digital Search Project, Participate in a Public
- Diversity
- Doing it ‘nice and rough’ – Tina Turner is my kind of Buddha
- Don’t cancel cancel culture
- Donut Holes & Superpowers:
- Do you really? (Wake up Please)
- Dragons, science fiction, and how fearsome archetypes can help you heal your inner life
- Dream On Drum Kit: What’s Your Rhythm?
- Duality: a coin parse
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- e-fuckin-nough
- E=mc² – a reason to make art
- Early Earnings, Archetypes, and Your Personal Way to Wealth
- Easter twisted tulip
- Edge of Seventeen
- Efficiency: a dangerous game
- Efficiency vs. Effortlessness
- Embedded – A Term of Endearment
- em dash — • middot
- emergence from dark into light, Rebellion
- Emergence ⟺ submergence
- Empathy isn’t pathology, Mr. Musk
- Empowering questions*
- Empowering words
- Enough-ness
- Exhale and Prepare
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- Farewell, Fair Man (and Family)
- Fearless and Non-reactive
- Feedback is free
- Feed of\on Most Recent Visual Art
- Feeling Free on the Mother of all days
- Flow in the trenches
- Flying Beagle
- Following
- Four Styles of Defining A Life
- Free Speech. Free Rant. American Ashes
- Free Webworker stuff
- Free Women’s March Art
- Frequent, see?
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- Helping the Helpers: methodology and pitfalls
- Hemingway, quantum mechanics, and personal inquiry
- Here’s my story (and I’m not sticking to it)
- Hey Ram
- hiding in the library
- High Commitment to a Low Standard
- hitting the speed limit
- Holiday Jealousy. On Making Cheer
- Hosting Hos: an explainer
- How to take a mental health day
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- I’m mourning today
- I am my dogs
- Idealism, burnout, and collaborative missions
- If it’s brown…
- If we kiss the friggin’ frog…
- If you think you are going to save the planet, you’ve got it all wrong
- I have a friend
- I Mama
- Immigration is the American Way…
- In (and out of) Service
- intersection of marketing and operations: digital concierge
- Intervention
- Is AI, or my butt, running my mobile phone?
- IT
- It’s happened. What to do next.
- It’s Happening
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- Ma-stalgia: a term of endearment for ascendant generations
- make all the same mistakes I did
- Make American Great by Making it Good
- Making an oracle by machine
- making one’s own language
- Mantis
- Mapping: meeting what you need on the checkerboard of life – with art project
- marketing: is it human trafficking?
- Marketing on the Web, for White Hat Operators
- Martin Luther King, Jr Quotes
- Matchy matchy branding is going, going …
- Matunuck
- Media Marks: that would be you and me
- Mending from Adrenaline
- Mercy mercy me
- Message for my daughter on Mother’s Day
- Me time = Flea time
- Mission: Good Will Ambassador
- Modern myths
- Monetizing a mommy blog
- More simple truisms
- morning person, writing grief
- Mother of
- Mothers make matter
- Mouse, Mystery, Mouse
- Movie Mode, Nurse Maid Bird
- My most patriotic feeling ever…
- My poem to you
- Mythic Oranges, Waters, and WWII
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- Ode to my mom’s memory
- Odin’s Bones
- On citing self: academic v. experiential knowing
- On Cults and Cultural Healing
- One-Third School, Two-Thirds Sky
- one brain drain
- on humor and malice
- On The Cutting Room Floor
- On the morning after the Georgia runoff, for Stacey Abrams
- Open Hope
- Open Letter of Empathy for Ben Jacobs
- Oppression is a tool of management, Inspiration a tool of Leadership
- Ordinary Abortion Story
- Orienting a Day
- Over-Unders for the Sandwich Generation
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- passive income / passive outcomes
- Paying it out like paying it forward?
- Personal is political
- Personal transformation is the only miracle recognized as such by the Buddha
- please for my birthday, mr. president
- Polarity: a mechanism of expansion
- Popes, Psychics, Refugees, and the Power of Love
- Portals: belying space and time since the beginning of space and time
- Post-truth: a convenient lie
- Practice Notes – Jan 19
- Praying is the last thing you should do
- Printable Poster Art for Women’s March
- Process sans plans & perfection
- project project & on demand on you
- Protest Art
- pushy, derivative, thieving, lying, child AI.
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- Radicalized, Right?!
- Rally Art
- recent visual work
- Reconciling Paradox – an Artist’s Way
- Red Face to Chance Grace
- Regress, or Congress?
- Relatable-ish: Mourning & Anticipation
- Renaissance Warriors
- Reprise from ’99 – Top Ten Ways to Ease into Effortlessness
- responsiveness: in websites and in life
- Right to life: MY American birthright.
- Rita Keintz Mullen
- Road Songs, Libraries, and Hard Work Hassles
- Rose Garden Ruse
- Rosie says….
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- Sacrifice
- Safe Sleeping
- Sand art for softer heart
- Screens
- Seeing: a creative’s guide to the senses
- Seeing vs sighting: a creative’s guide to perspective
- See something, say something
- self-censorship, free speech, and the powers of The People
- Self Care Salvation
- Sending out a call…
- Service Breakdown
- Shame & taking responsibility
- Shifting
- Shortcut to Autopilot
- Showoff
- Silly pop culture references > the news
- Simple truisms for my 6 year old
- Sinking Gifts. Rising Queen
- Skipping Stones
- Slay the Protégé
- Smartphone shrine
- Smoking Yoga
- So, I’m at the grocery store, not buying eggs
- So, just how do you sleep at night?
- Sock Drawer Philosophy
- speaking for himself
- Speculation vs Decision: guarantee certainty and mitigate risk by front-loading choices
- Spirits of the Medicine Women
- Spiritual Adulting: Part 1. I’m an American bigot. Ugh.
- St. Anthony and a Random Find
- Stale questions, fresh answers
- Stare at the thing, State the thing
- Stealing Jesus
- Stewarding the Internet
- Stone Soup
- Stories v Stats
- Stretched Thin – Christmas Wishes
- Sundials & Compasses
- Surveillance is a feeling
- Survival is a fast car
- Sweet f#&%!ng ice pick of freedom
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- Take a break, cause you are broken
- Take back the alphabet & re-write your life
- Taking a Hot Second to do The Work
- taking back the reins
- Tasslenisms – Part 3
- Tasslenisms: part one
- Tasslenisms: part two
- Teddy Talk
- Ten minutes in an eternal day
- ten years, 100 trees
- Terms of Endearment – Acceptance
- Terms of Endearment – Patron
- Terms of Endearment – Article
- Terms of Endearment – Imbue & Bodhi
- Testimony 2019
- Thank-yous Overdue
- Thankfulness, it’s an ambulance
- Thank you Carrie
- That birther thing started a sh*tstorm didn’t it?
- THAT kind of mom
- The ain’t-no-baby-in-there baby belly
- The annual sadness
- The Art Garde of Cinema
- The beach rocks
- The best questions to ask
- The book in me
- The Constitution of US
- The conversation
- The day you realize
- The death of dignity: ain’t that a shame
- The Deep Suck of Depression
- The Fairness Container
- The Fake News Fake Out
- The formula…
- The gift of unfinished business
- The Helpers
- The Honest.
- The inhumanity of over-helpfulness
- The Inside on Fight or Flight
- The Living Legacy™ Worksheet
- The low road
- The Mess
- the mirror ball
- The morning I have
- The Name of the Game
- The Nature of Outrage
- The Next Generation
- The Power of Fiction
- These Songs of Freedom
- The superpower I wish I had
- The toilet in my back yard
- The Truth Beat – The Authoritarian Directive Broken Down
- The truth shall…
- The ultimate fill
- The Upside Down of Spiritual Awakening
- The Weaponization of a White Woman’s Social Media Feed
- the web
- The worm
- They made their bed, let ’em lie in it
- This day
- This isn’t allowed anymore
- This might take a while…
- Through Lines, Titles, & Hiding While Seeking
- time to march
- Time Travel
- Title remains silent
- Titles First (and foremost?)
- toney atone: my family goals
- to women who’ve made themselves a holy mess of wonderfulness
- Tracking Freedom
- Tree Hugging Humour, Lychee Trees & Ways of Approach
- Truthiness and tricks: the authoritative voice
- Truth telling in little bits
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- Waitress tale
- Waitress Tales, Common Fails
- Waitress TV
- Walking between the worlds
- watching water drops turn to birds
- Waving
- Weaving as an act of wholeness
- Web marketing fundamentals: content
- website explainer: “the magic bookshelf”
- We can only get insulted if we’ve hidden our real mission
- Welcome to Mom Mess
- Well-crafted or just barely slung into shape?
- What’s your story? Mythic or Mundane?
- What are your Grace Goals today?
- What changes when you have kids
- What do you call utopia?
- What if I can’t…
- what if I quit my first job?
- What I know (a letter of witchy wisdom to my kid)
- What I know about marketing
- What is God?
- What makes any given website run
- What you see is what you can free
- when ‘us’ turns 20
- When a mound of sand sends you to the stratosphere
- When I was before now
- When libraries love you back
- When you’ve got 20 minutes
- When you can’t say it in words
- Who’s carrying…
- Why ask?
- Why I make my work freely available
- Why I march
- Will the Real America Please Stand Up? Birther-in-Chief is Thieving Again
- with all the ____ in my heart
- Woke? Noke.
- Womanness
- Word
- Write what you want to learn
