A multi-media pairing for a multi-media life. Thank goodness for music, art, and poetry. In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about
You won’t all get this, and that’s okay
Menopause is like a pack of wolves in a bitch's clothing. So fun to play with tools like Facebook color boxes, then turn them on their head by this
Channeling
Finding out your life has been running on a cacophony of ideas from everyone and everything you've ever heard, means you just woke up to your ability
Designer Questions to Engineer Endurance, Achievement, and Happiness
Focusing your attention on long-acting, feeling-based, style-specific questions can give you a richer and happier experience of life. What I love
Beginner’s Mind & Happier Times
WELCOME TO MY FIRST QUOTE-A-RAMA It's a relief to know that there was never a moment in my life when everything was perfect. There is no
Rebellion | emergence from dark into light
Why new voices from the subconscious matter to all of us. I admire teenagers and young people who rail against every day culture and bring new
E=mc² – a reason to make art
A genius creation that exists only inside our minds can't hold a candle to the energy that exists in even the tiniest bit of stuff you make. I
Participate in a Public | Digital Search Project
I stole this post, screenshots of my own images, and public research project back from my IG account, where the winners of original physical art will
Artist’s Confidential
AKA pulling apart a piece of art, with some web-weaving via inappropriate footnoting. This entire piece is about a rapidly made Instagram reel
Early Earnings, Archetypes, and Your Personal Way to Wealth
(with an obsessive case study in American Politics) The archetypes1 represented in your earliest "receptive" associations are a powerful way
Stale questions, fresh answers
I'm treating myself to some new questions in my self-styled spa day today, because my old questions haven't been serving up much joy or love. I
Hemingway, quantum mechanics, and personal inquiry
I think it was Earnest Hemingway who said to write well, start with one true sentence. My true sentences come from my raw, emotional questions and
What you see is what you can free
Don't get trapped in a prison of your own making. -W Leitzen
Calling all Creators
Our children need our protection not infantilization. It’s time for creators to stop producing trite, dopamine-drippy, algorithmically-oriented
See something, say something
My mom has always been an awesome writer. She went back to school when I was 10. Her professors fawned over her writing which raised money, started
delaborate
Odin: so I was working on my narrative at school, and it was long, so I decided to delaborate on the spaghetti. . #Odinisms #ProudMom
“Yes… but” and the road to hell
Why all of a sudden TRump supporters are in disbelief that he could say something brazenly cruel and irreverent? Isn’t that why they voted for
Why ask?
Truly great questions are like time-release peace bombs that detonate in real life. - W. Leitzen
Shifting
what if this were true?
The Truth Beat – The Authoritarian Directive Broken Down
The other day I looked down to glance at a news paragraph on my phone. It said something like, "there are increasing ethical and criminal breaches at
Martin Luther King, Jr Quotes
“A lie cannot live.” “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.” “Our lives begin to end the day we become
These Songs of Freedom
This is some verbiage GOP Trump-backing officials can use to get free. It is time. Dear Constituents: I am officially and irrevocably withdrawing
And up we go again
After writing a few emotional posts lately, both "positive" then "negative," I feel I must quickly get something down in this space that is positive
Next time someone downplays the words, please remember
In the age of Trump, when spokespeople alternate between "his words are not what he means" or "he means what he says," please remember...
yes, I remember
Remember when the GOP used to fight tyranny for the sake of democracy? And now they fight democracy for the sake of a tyrant?
Government is a service
make sure you are well-served
A plan for coping with inauguration weekend
Here is what I am doing during the inauguration on Friday: 1) donating to the ACLU- RI (www.riaclu.org/get-involved/donate) 2) donating to Planned
Free Women’s March Art
Graphics may be printed, shared and forwarded for personal or organizational use in any Women’s March or any other purpose that supports civil rights,
time to march
She is clear.
Thank you Carrie
Take your broken heart, and make it art -Carrie Fisher to Meryl Streep
Protest Art
Because, once again, a short quip and some pictures can sometimes speak more than volumes. Here's hoping the Women's March picks this up and runs with
Oppression is a tool of management, Inspiration a tool of Leadership
This is a distinction that hopefully illustrates why so many Americans are upset. We need to hear from the good winners: Who are you and what are
Quote Day
Below are a few quotes that have caused me to pause at different times in my life. Hope you enjoy them. You can't get enough of what you don't
Tasslenisms: part two
see also Tasslenisms One ♥ Tasslenisms Two ♥ Tasslenisms Three Tasslen at egg hunt: Look mom, a double yolker! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Tasslen: mom, can I
Tasslenisms: part one
Words from my (now 5 year old) daughter. see also Tasslenisms One ♥ Tasslenisms Two ♥ Tasslenisms Three ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Tasslen: I'm so excited for
Welcome to Mom Mess
This website aims to provide to you a daily dose of truth or fiction, especially fiction that rings true. We all know the power of story-telling,
