Y’all my email game is never going to be the same.  And neither is yours if you want to jump in with me to one of the most exciting marketing innovations in years, OK decades. Flodesk y’all has captured my heart, imagination and my super picky designer aesthetic needs.  Read, I just need it to be pretty… […]

“A mindset of abundance encourages community and collaboration to rise above competition and creates an environment that invites unity. It means that you can celebrate the accomplishments of others without feeling diminished by their success.” -Natalie Franke If you are using content without attribution or credit, you’re hurting your brand.  Not someday maybe. But right […]

BLOOM they said: bloom where you are planted. which meant bloom where you are starved and strangled, find peace amidst the ash heaps of yesterday, break thru the concrete of dried up dreams, settle down into our system and make friends with its bars. thank you for the offer i said, but i can’t become […]

I’m still surprised by kindness.  Especially after spending 30+ years in places that extolled kindness as a virtue and then usually reserved it for those who agreed with them. Spoiler alert, I was often the impertinent one asking hard questions and poking at sacred cows. But being kind to those who agree with us is […]

“Those who cannot be tamed are disturbers of the universe, and without them, we would be infinitely poorer.” -Madeleine L’Engle I woke yesterday to memes filling my social feeds with greetings of, “May the 4th be with you.”  Because, after all, the 4th was indeed with us, and it was world Star Wars Day. Then, […]

In a word, everything.  And I didn’t really see how much… until my brain crashed into the front of my skull the night everything changed in late January 2018.  Over a year later I am still fighting my way forward from the injuries my brain sustained.  One thing that has become so very clear in recent […]