Don’t Focus on Winning — Focus on Progress
Why Consistent Effort is Better Than Flash-in-the-Pan Success I’m going to drop a brutal truth right now: most of us will never be the winners of life. If you’re the sort of person who still holds onto dreams of grand success, allow me to rain on your parade — gently, of course. One of the […]
Context is For Queens
Humans are stubborn, willful little creatures. We’re relentlessly determined to understand the nature of, well, everything. But as much as we act like cosmic detectives, we don’t have the skill, the right tools, or even a faint idea of what the mystery is we’re trying to solve. Sure, we can keep pretending we can wrap […]
Why We Need to Stop Seeking Problems in Search of Solutions
In this glorious postmodern age, in which we enjoy more solutions than actual problems, we seem to be inventing problems just to keep ourselves entertained. It seems in the globalization of humanity we’ve collectively decided that life would be too dull without a few manufactured crises to spice things up.After all, what’s the point of […]
Keeping Up in the Information Age
When I was knee-deep in the digital marketing swamp, I thought I could keep up with it all—knowledge, trends, my inbox, you name it. My goal was to become some kind of 21st-century renaissance woman who would become one of the expected heroes of the information age. Yeah, I was dead wrong about that. It […]
Celebrating Infinite Diversity
Why We Should Embrace Our Differences In the world we live in today, it’s tempting to try and force people into cookie-cutter boxes based on their race, gender, or sexual orientation. But, we must remind ourselves that every person has their own unique set of circumstances, experiences, and perspective on the world. Only by embracing […]
How to Tell if You Have a Beautiful Idea
There are an infinite number of ideas floating around in the universe, from truly terrible ones to those that could change the world. But, how do you know if your idea is one of the latter? Sadly, plenty of perfectly good ideas never come to fruition. So, how do you recognize what makes a beautiful […]
Getting One Percent Better Every Day
As Charles Schulz once said, “Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” This brilliant observation sums up so much of the human condition. We’re all equipped with potential, yet most of us coast along, our metaphorical legs doing the bare minimum while we let life roll downhill. Of […]
Turnkey Phrases
I’m on a never-ending quest for turnkey phrases—magical combinations of words that drive themselves relentlessly towards unique expressions of ideas and memories. Once assembled, they’ll propel themselves forward like an unstoppable freight train, hellbent on smashing writer’s block, becoming my guiding light into the elusive territory of original expression. Every time I think I’ve found […]
My First Novel OUT NOW! Tunes and Tails: Purrfectly Prejudiced
Tunes and Tails #1: Purrfectly Prejudiced “Welcome to Catbridge High, where the battle of the bands isn’t just about winning over the crowd—it’s a fight for fame, fortune, and nine lives’ worth of legendary mischief. Enter Lunatics in Love, the feline phenoms with attitudes as sharp as their guitars and a playlist as chaotic as their lives. […]