Tag: Life
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Dear Creative: Use Your Brain—Your Whole Brain, #17.2025
Dear Creative, I hope you are swimming in the sweet spot of right-brain creativity and left-brain refinement today. If not, I hope this letter helps you find the right balance, as successful artists often do in their creative process. While neuroscience has moved away from oversimplifying the right-brain and left-brain dichotomies, there is still too…
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Stay Happy. File Taxes #16.2025
Dear Creatives, Happy Friday! In today’s short yet sweet letter, my main aim is to remind you to file your taxes. And try not to pull your hair out as you shuffle through the process. “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” – Albert Einstein. Yes. Even the brilliant, Nobel…
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Stay Happy #11.2025
Dear Creatives, Happy Friday! I have great news. New opportunities are emerging for me and considering them has postponed this message’s arrival. However, a stall isn’t a stop. I’m happy to present this short yet important note to you today that I had to learn the hard way. As creatives, it’s easy to forget the mundane…
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Where Will Love Take You? #10. 2025
Dear Creatives, Happy Love Week! This week, many of us will celebrate the virtues of love with heart-shaped candies, bouquets of roses, greeting cards, and candlelight dinners. While this is a tradition, I trust that many of us celebrate love all year, thinking of wonderful ways to express our affection for those we care about…
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What We Learn From the Great Maya Angelou, #9.2025
Dear Creative, My mind races with thoughts of current events, women’s rights in sports, and, yes, Black History Month. I hope you are well. My prayer is that this letter is received with the good kind of angst that fills my heart right now—the sort that sings, “We are not laboring in vain.” Prayers are…
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Update on Title IX, and Loving Life over Politics
I hope this message finds you well! Can you believe how quickly this month has zipped by? It feels like our world has morphed into a gripping serial drama. Perhaps it’s always been this way. Only now I’m finally old enough to take it more seriously and to grasp the nuances that once eluded me.…
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TAKE ME TO THE CROSS
Doesn’t everyone need a bit of Lent in their life? Today is Ash Wednesday which marks the beginning of the Lenten season. I’ve never paid much attention to the tradition. The last time I saw a person practicing Lent, I was in Atlanta, and he was my boss. Acknowledging that he did something good proves…
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I FOUND A HACK FOR THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
And it is Helping Me Reprioritize Things Once upon a time, people wanted to live under a set of laws, so God spoke to Moses and thus, the Ten Commandments. Perhaps those people figured that if they had a list of things to do and not to do, they would obey God (not sin and…