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Creativity

What’s your best marketing plan?

Answer: the one you will actually do. No one needs to elaborate any more than this, but I will write like wild anyway because I’m a human who…

March 31, 2026March 31, 2026 · 9 min read

Mommess

weaving the www

With the wild west, a personal party, and thoughts on the web as a woman’s medium. Women’s work, I’ve been told by more than a few wise souls,…

February 16, 2026February 16, 2026 · 6 min read

David Bowie in SymbolWork format by artist Elizabeth Mullen Matteson
History

Why try bird’s eye?

On the art & science of mapping, and our physical positioning in relationship to the places we depict. Maps may have come about, in part, to verify that…

December 19, 2025December 19, 2025 · 5 min read

Artwork by EM Matteson, looks like abstract figure
Best of Mommess

Ai Ai (for now)

[Update 12/21/20255] I’ve stopped using AI as an administrative tool, because, it is has been more trouble than it has provided innovative solutions, AND it uses ridiculous amount…

November 15, 2025December 21, 2025 · 6 min read

Map_of_Norwich_(c.1300)_by_Woodward. See Wikimedia commons for more
Culture

Anchors Away

There was a time when women undergoing spiritual transformation could take a vow of stability of place, and hole up – practically – in a cell in a…

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 · 3 min read

Too Tired to Title | F’It Birth of Venus by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson
Culture

Admitting Conflation

See, I’m on a self-study immersion in the English language and American culture so as to become a better writer. And my course is pretty sloppy and more…

September 28, 2025September 28, 2025 · 3 min read

The Art of Painting By Johannes Vermeer - Google Arts & Culture — lAHeqBoLaePtEA, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22003845
Creativity

Mapping: meeting what you need on the checkerboard of life – with art project

On the checkerboard of life, the right thing is finding its way to you, as you are to it.~ My Mom Artwork: No Title by the author 2024…

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 · 3 min read

Research & Development

pushy, derivative, thieving, lying, child AI.

Ok, first: forgive this title. Yes, it’s here to grab your attention, but has less vitriol behind it than perhaps it sounds. Truth is, whether I like it…

September 19, 2025September 23, 2025 · 3 min read

drawing by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson. surrealist with bold colors. Looks like two jellyfish under a tall bed
Creativity

Emergence ⟺ submergence

Acknowledging your submerged self, the media you choose to portray it, and The Beatles. Have your ever felt that you are emerging from something? If so, where are…

July 28, 2025July 29, 2025 · 4 min read

Culture

low-to-no ownership

With poorly drawn diagram of a cross-section of Earth and Space. Because Western civilization and most economic systems seem to be centered around “mine” vs. “yours,” there is…

July 19, 2025July 19, 2025 · 4 min read

Mommess

Believing, Knowing and a Timeless Smile

The power of acknowledgement & questions for deep, time-released understanding. Sitting outside at a small red cafe table on Laguardia Place in New York City, Jim Smith looked…

July 12, 2025July 12, 2025 · 6 min read

"Web Royalty" Markup Digital Work Copyright 2025 EM Matteson
Mommess

Stewarding the Internet

Women are used to this in terms of motherhood, being unseen and unpaid: just “expected.” Moms do love and care and survival of the species. It’s a default…

July 8, 2025July 10, 2025 · 3 min read

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