The Birthday Cake

The Birthday Cake

It was the Friday night before Ava’s tenth birthday. Keep in mind we were having a small celebration, nothing fancy, on Saturday, with our family and a few of her close friends.  There would be fun pink snacks and pizza ordered, a little shopping, and a spend...
The Creative Exponent

The Creative Exponent

So interesting where life leads us. For the last few years, I’ve spent time consulting and coaching into other companies, focusing on marketing, branding, and story telling.  While I have loved every single minute of it, I knew eventually I would come back to...
Stillness

Stillness

I sit quietly in my living room, a room I wouldn’t sit in for almost a year before my marriage ended.  It was like the silence of what was happening under the surface of me was too piercing in here, too deafening.  Too revealed.  I retreated to spending time in...
Begin Again

Begin Again

There is just something about a studio.  A clean, white space.  Everything is fresh.  Everything is new.  Blank.  This is the place where new things are born.  I walked into Marian’s studio this week, and some of the moments within the space stopped me in my tracks. ...
Becoming…Still

Becoming…Still

Every time I opened my laptop to write my first post in the last few years, I inevitably shut it, apathetic and uninterested.  My world had shifted dramatically after my divorce, and for me, I had no idea how to tie it all back together again, here, in this creative...