Often, I hear people complain how they too, wish they could be an artist but fear they couldn’t make a living at it. These same people then fail to buy from artists (sometimes citing “it’s not worth it”) and instead, plunk down lots of money on useless trinkets from Wal-Mart.
I’m a firm believer that you must support others who do what you wish to do. For me, that means that supporting small artists, writers and magazines instead of large chains. …

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One of the habits I’ve taken with me from my corporate days is the Friday Afternoon Wind down Ceremony which involves tidying up papers in the afternoon, getting the last of the emails out, putting the finishing touches on articles and then signing off for a couple of days.
I used to work twenty-four seven with writing until it left me tired, cranky and bitter with my job. Realising that if writing was to remain my passion, I’d have to give …

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Coco Chanel
I had to do something recently that I rarely do – look at my web sites statistics. For purposes of marketing for my book, I had to check out exactly how many people are coming, from where and why. I had to get in touch with the audience.
It was an uncomfortable process for me because over a year ago, I decided I didn’t …

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In the fifth grade I was given an art assignment to draw any picture I wanted for a calendar project. At the time I, like most eleven year old girls, was fascinated with unicorns and drew a spectacular scene involving one.
When I showed it to the teacher the next day, she told me to stand in front of the class so that they could see what a cheat looked like. She went on to say that I must have traced …

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Sometimes when one repeats a word over and over, like carrot, the word starts to make less and less sense. If one writes the word down over and over, the spelling starts to make even less sense. One starts to ask, “Is that even a word? It doesn’t look right. It doesn’t make sense.”
Although they might have said or spelled carrot a million times, it’s the repetition that can sometimes cause doubt to the validity of the word.
That is how …

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