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Category: Work

Coaching

The toilet in my back yard

And the knowing that comes from an ‘in house’ metaphor. Last month, we cashed in some Apple shares to have a friend’s brother fix our bathroom. The floor…

June 20, 2025June 20, 2025 · 3 min read

Creativity

Validation & Credentialing ~ Terms of Endearment for oddly-credentialed kin

I’ve been pondering the value of credentialing and validation for someone to get recognized for mastery in action, but have personally not chased either; preferring instead to practice…

June 10, 2025June 10, 2025 · 4 min read

Mommess

Confidence in Community

After working on dozens of special events like gala balls, weddings, music festivals, high-brow fundraisers, and kids’ field days, I’ve come to learn that special events need a…

June 9, 2025June 9, 2025 · 2 min read

Mommess

The Next Generation

Today, I did something out of character. I showed up to volunteer for a PTO thing at my kids’ former elementary school. For the record, my kids do…

June 7, 2025June 7, 2025 · 2 min read

Mommess

Embedded – A Term of Endearment

I usually write these Terms of Endearment posts without quoting the dictionary because I want to gain insight as to my personal experience with these words. It’s like…

May 28, 2025May 29, 2025 · 4 min read

Coaching

making one’s own language

Correspondence, energy, and how to gain self-awareness through making your language, your way. Actually, I’m working on more of symbol set, but that’s semantics for you. This SymbolWorkTM…

May 25, 2025May 26, 2025 · 5 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

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

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

Body & Health

Empathy isn’t pathology, Mr. Musk

If you are feeling a bit too much empathy, and it has you on the floor feeling terrible, don’t go to war with it, up-level it into compassion.…

April 11, 2025April 11, 2025 · 4 min read

Coaching

Networking with a beginner’s mind

Backdrop: In 20+ years of my marketing business, I didn’t need to “do networking” because the right people found me at the right times, and my business (and…

April 10, 2025April 10, 2025 · 7 min read

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