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Jamestown, RI
Chapter One: Rock I grew up on “the rock,” otherwise known as Jamestown, RI. A place of roughly the same geographical spread as Manhattan, but far fewer people…
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Creativity
On making love, not war, and the silent majority
When I first heard Double Fantasy at 11, I knew I’d heard something new. A collaboration with two unique voices: one from the West, one from the East.…
Culture
when practicality looks like magic: 222
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” -Arthur C. Clarke Years ago I was contracted to coordinate and improve the digital marketing for an explosively growing outfit.…
Mommess
Long a$$ rambling tax ‘tip’
Hi Friends, The 2025 tax code allows filers to write off up to 25K in tips as long as their adjusted gross income isn’t above $150,000 ($300,000 if…
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…
Coaching
Living Legacy™ and loving turns of phrase
I love turns of phrase, especially those that are, by their nature, contradictory. Living Legacy is one like this. Legacy, by definition, has to do with what you…
Language
Audience
A term of endearment post. If you can feel positioning and motion inherent in words, then you may also experience how your point of view can flip with…
Language
Perspicacious: a term of endearment
I heard this word for perhaps the first time in a podcast, and fell in love. The word delighted me because it condensed into one word what I’d…
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…
Mommess
Life is a feeling
One of my teachers said the title of this post with great authority, and it gave me pause. How could life be a feeling, I wondered, isn’t life…
Language
What do you call utopia?
With Sunday Morning Hope by David Byrne and Patti Smith I don’t care for the word utopia. I feel it’s been so overused for so long that my…
Culture
Regress, or Congress?
In 2016, I wrote letters to a number of GOP Senators asking them to hold the line against the destructive tendencies of Trump. It seemed clear that his…