I've never felt like I was either "right-brained" or "left-brained", so several years ago I decided I have an "ambidextrous" brain that balances the messy, chaotic creative with the ordered, logical analysis. This corner of bloggy-ness hosts my voice on creative business, productivity, DIY culture, community, and the occasional recipe from my kitchen.
Foggy mornings make for productive starts to the day.
In a measure of personal accountability (and an expression of my pride), here's a look back at what I accomplished this month in regards to my annual focal points: the Year of Writing and the Year of Debt Reduction.
Read MoreLooking forward to the new year and welcoming it like a beautiful sunrise.
I don’t have a formal annual review process and I’m terrible about making and keeping new year’s resolutions, but I always make it a point to set two themes for they year. Let's review how my 2014 themes played out and what's in store for 2015.
Read MorePart Three in quitting my day job: I fell into a great trap of anti-productivity, but I've learned a number of lessons.
Read MoreI quit my job, and I feel fine. It's been an eventful couple of months here, and I'm fixin' to tell you all about it. Part Two: It was time to move on and focus on all the important projects that my job was distracting me from, but there was one single question that was getting in the way: "How can I afford to do this?" Here's how I planned, budgeted, mapped out how best to make it happen.
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In April, I quit my day job, bought a house, and entered the hectic world of self-employment. Why I did it, how I'm making it work, and what I've learned in the process.
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