Monday Monday

The effort it takes to begin

November 1, 2023

Flexible Office begins tomorrow

The ghosts of love

October 30, 2023

Loneliness when the veil is thin

Standing in our values

October 23, 2023

Flexible Office, Hidden Gems of Marketing, and continued action

Friday Thread : Hope as an Action

$ · October 20, 2023

“The only recognizable feature of hope is action.” - Grace Paley Etel Adnan - Untitled, 2015 What is bringing you in and out of hope and hopelessness this...

May the option of freezing rapidly dissolve

$ · October 16, 2023

Time and space are not awarded to us, we must carve them out and protect them. The eclipse felt like destiny in that I went out dancing and went to four...

Shitty follow through and not taking action

$ · October 13, 2023

Yes Yes Advice Column

Blessings ripple out

October 9, 2023

What will the cosmos do?

Friday Thread : Becoming and Staying Radicalized

October 6, 2023

WHAT ACTIONS, STORIES, GROUPS, MOTIVATIONS KEEP YOU RADICAL? What books, podcast, documentaries, novels, movies keep your spirit alive with rage for movement...

Window Place

October 2, 2023

A new artist residency project and open call

Friday Thread : Social Media Addiction

September 29, 2023

HOW DO YOU HEAL FROM SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION? What practices or rules do you place on yourself so that you may be present in your life? Is it worth staying...

I quit Instagram

September 25, 2023

Leaving a practice behind

Deciding about grad school, seeing past loves, and the resistance to people pleasing

$ · September 21, 2023

Yes Yes Advice Column

I saw my breath today

September 19, 2023

Summer was cruel

Hiding my best writing

September 11, 2023

Where to put our work

Week Twelve : Recovering a Sense of Faith

$ · September 8, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

I am thirty five and alone

$ · September 7, 2023

My ex husband's wedding, SATC, and witnessing love

Not so book smart

September 4, 2023

Starting school again

Week Eleven : Recovering a Sense of Autonomy

$ · September 1, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

I grew a tomato

August 28, 2023

Miracles of time

Week Ten : Recovering a Sense of Self Protection

$ · August 25, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

Success on Substack

August 21, 2023

Craft a Subscription Newsletter Worth Reading

Week Nine : Recovering a Sense of Compassion

$ · August 18, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

May the leap from the top be swift

August 14, 2023

Coming out of retirement

Week Eight : Recovering a Sense of Strength

$ · August 12, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

Alone on the shore

August 7, 2023

Unapologetically me!

Week Seven : Recovering a Sense of Connection

$ · August 5, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

As the flowers find their names

July 31, 2023

The art of the diagnosis

Week Six : Recovering a Sense of Abundance

$ · July 28, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

The plants become themselves

July 25, 2023

When nothing is steady the plants stay true

Week Five : Recovering a Sense of Possibility

$ · July 21, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

Embracing Your Everchanging Job Description

July 20, 2023

Making this podcast brought me into a business ecosystem crisis. Very little of my output changed, but my inner understanding of my work needed to shift.So...

Running out of ideas

July 17, 2023

Summer's cruel illusion

Week Four : Recovering a Sense of Integrity

$ · July 14, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

Creating Your Offer Ecosystem

July 12, 2023

Your offer ecosystem is how your creative offerings branch out of your artistry, fit together in the world, increase your income, and expand your reach.In...

The dilemma of self employment

July 10, 2023

How we become our jobs

Week Three : Recovering a Sense of Power

$ · July 7, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

Artists Need Each Other

July 5, 2023

Forming creative community, trusting our light

5 Reasons the World Needs Your Online Class

July 5, 2023

Teaching online classes is how I’ve made the majority of my income since 2017. And it is a great joy of my career to have had such amazing, invested, weird,...

Week Two : Recovering a Sense of Identity

$ · June 30, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

How to Commit to the Life of an Artist with Anna Fusco

June 28, 2023

This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m joined by my internet friend Anna Fusco to discuss dedicating your life to art. Anna is an artist, writer, deep...

Teaching as a practice

June 26, 2023

Our creative offerings aren't always obvious

Week One : Recovering a Sense of Safety

$ · June 23, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

6 Tools for When You Don’t Know What To Do Next

June 21, 2023

I think the great fear of most creative people is that we’ll run out of ideas and not know what to do next. I come up against this time and time again in my...

The desire to stay hidden

June 19, 2023

Crying in front of strangers

Your art matters

June 16, 2023

Setting intentions for The Artist Way Book Study

Storytelling as a Throughline with Tamara Santibañez

June 14, 2023

This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m sharing the mic with my friend Tamara Santibañez for a conversation about oral histories, tattooing, freelancing,...

The magic of the artist date

June 12, 2023

Adventures of the ordinary

Swimming gives me the answers

June 10, 2023

The only place you can't use your phone is the water

Finding the Pace of Our Work

June 7, 2023

This week on Common Shapes, I share four practices for checking in with your creative pace — internal seasons, intuitive sharing, weather systems, and the...

Looking for the in between

June 5, 2023

What we have right now is enough