Category: Articles of Absurdia

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As a child, I often spoke out of turn and perhaps it was only because I had so much to say and a desperate need to be heard. I spent so many years speaking in circles, never able to turn off the roundabout in my mind, wondering which road was worth taking. Eventually I chose […]

Or the Unbearable Importance of Learning Things You Never Thought You’d Need “Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” —Leonardo da Vinci I’ve long admired da Vinci, the patron saint of the well-rounded genius. I like to imagine that if he were alive today, he’d be the kind of guy who […]

Creativity is a passion business, not a catering business. Yet somehow, the world seems to think that if we creatives fail to deliver a piping hot platter of ideas on their schedule, we’re failing at life. Unfortunately for them, creativity doesn’t work that way. You can’t summon it like an Uber driver to whisk you […]

I’ve learned the hard way that dwelling on other people’s opinions is like voluntarily wearing a straitjacket made of barbed wire. It doesn’t help anyone, really, least of all you. For much of my life, I was trapped in the mental torture chamber of wondering what this or that ignoramus thinks about me. Spoiler alert: […]

Too many nights, I find myself wide awake. Most of them are spent mindlessly mulling over pursuits that, on the surface, are the intellectual equivalent of scrolling through memes that fail to amuse me. Somewhere in the back of my mind, there’s a small, tired voice gently reminding me that maybe this isn’t the best […]