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Mommess

Hosting Hos: an explainer

In my professional life, I’ve been one heck of a website ho. Stewarding website after website, using my pro tools and licenses and caring for dozens of websites…

October 3, 2024October 3, 2024 · 3 min read

Mommess

Word

Words explain my world to me, and I’m guessing I’m not alone. What I mean is that every definition is steeped in memory of when I first learned…

October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 · 2 min read

Humor

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 have a…

September 27, 2024September 28, 2024 · 12 min read

Art by Henri Matisse, 1916.
Creativity

Seeing vs sighting: a creative’s guide to perspective

Axes, dimensions, observers, and the role of inner perspective. As a girl, one day while standing on the side of a cliff looking out over the water, I…

September 17, 2024July 13, 2025 · 6 min read

image by Ann Nygard
Coaching

The Living Legacy™ Worksheet

What if you could discover your life’s natural purpose in 5 minutes? This is the original Living Legacy Worksheet, written around Y2K. I just had fun filling it…

September 7, 2024December 14, 2025 · 1 min read

Mommess

“non-specified spiritual experience “

And the origin of new beliefs: a head-on, common-sense take on cracking up “Non-specified spiritual experience” (NSSE) was the language my chiropractor used to describe what I’d been…

August 25, 2024September 4, 2024 · 6 min read

Mommess

marketing: is it human trafficking?

What does marketing and advertising do? It moves people, psychologically, economically — and often physically — to do something. A Digital Times Square Theoretically, every advertisement or piece…

August 11, 2024August 17, 2024 · 5 min read

Mommess

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 experiences —…

July 13, 2024July 15, 2024 · 4 min read

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Culture

We can only get insulted if we’ve hidden our real mission

There are Clark Kents all over the place. Example: as a teen, once I became skilled enough as a waitress to do the job (i.e. get the right…

July 12, 2024July 13, 2025 · 3 min read

Culture

Abstinence Doesn’t Work

No one’s thrilled by the choices this upcoming election. But I don’t need thrills from my governance – that’s for reality TV. I’m writing to people not planning…

July 6, 2024April 23, 2025 · 5 min read

Mommess

responsiveness: in websites and in life

I find myself needing to write every day. The swirl of ideas and realizations are vast and without some expressive outlet. So, I’m giving myself 15 minutes today…

June 30, 2024June 30, 2024 · 2 min read

Creativity

Donut Holes & Superpowers:

probing the philosophy of nothingness in daily life How consciousness works, how it lives, dies, and transforms has been a preoccupation of mine since I was a girl…

June 28, 2024July 13, 2025 · 3 min read

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