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Tag: terms of endearment

Coaching

Valuing your values – a mini workshop in a post

Many moons ago I crewed for a personal development coach in Hawaii and both coasts. I used to help usher folks across beds of hot coals and jump…

March 14, 2026March 17, 2026 · 6 min read

Looking Up digital art by EM Matteson 2025
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…

December 23, 2025December 23, 2025 · 5 min read

Rock art by EM Matteson
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…

December 14, 2025December 14, 2025 · 3 min read

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…

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025 · 3 min read

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…

November 28, 2025December 2, 2025 · 2 min read

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…

November 9, 2025November 10, 2025 · 4 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

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

Creativity

Becoming a writer

Play on words, Play with words: what do you want to know about you? My first poem, which I can recite by heart, woke me up. I wrote…

July 1, 2025July 2, 2025 · 4 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

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

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

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