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Mommess

The day you realize

In the past few years, I found myself saying lightheartedly, “you know, I am the center of my own universe. So are you. No one can be anything…

May 20, 2025May 21, 2025 · 8 min read

Mommess

IT

I have had a love-hate relationship with the word “it” in all of its permutations. There, I admitted it. In my book, it is not exactly a Term…

May 17, 2025May 20, 2025 · 4 min read

Mommess

Veiling & The Blues

On my walk today, I found a painted blue trail blaze on the ground. The tree it had been painted on had been stripped of much of its…

May 15, 2025May 17, 2025 · 8 min read

Coaching

Judging or Perceiving | Collector or Renunciate?

Dualistic Mindsets in Myers Briggs and other such things I have a judgy mind. And if you’ve done a Myers-Briggs test and landed squarely with a “J” in…

May 12, 2025May 12, 2025 · 7 min read

Creativity

Why I make my work freely available

plus a touch of fundraising I believe in the importance of public institutions, especially Public Libraries, Public Education, and Public Art. And I understand the value of artists…

May 11, 2025May 13, 2025 · 5 min read

Family

Feeling Free on the Mother of all days

Sunday is Mothers Day and I’m going to try again to divest myself of all planned work, chores, conversations, and responsibilities; while avoiding expectant smiles about having a…

May 11, 2025May 11, 2025 · 3 min read

Creativity

Ma-stalgia: a term of endearment for ascendant generations

Nostalgia as sign it’s time to reboot our childlike sense of self, and how being states help us cope with a heightened sense of responsibility. My brother sent…

May 4, 2025May 5, 2025 · 9 min read

Mommess

digital marketing feeds the tech bro machine

I honestly feel like many of the things everyone’s been doing with digital marketing is going to fall by the wayside very soon. I’ve been working professionally in…

May 2, 2025May 2, 2025 · 3 min read

David Bowie in SymbolWork format by artist Elizabeth Mullen Matteson
Culture

Dragons, science fiction, and how fearsome archetypes can help you heal your inner life

I love stories. And I crave movies that sweep me away… and not just for sake of distraction. Stories help heal my inner cast of characters: that chorus…

May 2, 2025November 3, 2025 · 7 min read

Creativity

an artist date: sketching with the masters

From April 25, the perfect date1. I’ve noticed recently how many of my favorite thinkers, artists, musicians, and philosophers spent/spend an good amount of time consuming literature, art…

May 1, 2025May 4, 2025 · 2 min read

Best of Mommess

Frequent, see?

A term of endearment post on Frequency My social media is full of coaches, teachers, and offerings which speak to the power of manifestation using frequencies. The number…

April 26, 2025April 27, 2025 · 5 min read

HeartBreak Shield by EMWE Art Copyright Elizabeth Mullen Matteson
Creativity

self-censorship, free speech, and the powers of The People

What happens when the recently de-privileged1 try to recoup social power by authoritarianism, and what to do about it. No law can save you, if you don’t make…

April 25, 2025April 26, 2025 · 7 min read

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