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My sister sent me this goofy thing this week: 33 Animals Who Are Extremely Disappointed in You. I am completely in love with the Corgi at the end who thinks I’m doing fine and is so proud of me. Let’s face it: we all screw up constantly. We let ourselves and others down. We do [...]

  How well do you maintain the most precious tool in your creative work? No, I’m not talking about your computer or paintbrushes. I’m talking about you—your mind and body. Over the last year or two, I’ve started skimping on sleep, but when I look at almost any challenge in my creative work, I s...

Sometimes you learn what to do by figuring out what not to do. Every summer, I go on a “vacation” where I share a bedroom in my elderly parents’ house with my son for 5 weeks and don’t get any respite from child care or elder care for 2 1/2 of those weeks. Don’t do [...]

Are you a juggler, like me, with several balls in the air at all times? Despite all our time-saving devices, our daily lives seem to be fuller than ever. Juggling all those balls can leave us feeling like we don’t have time for our creative work. This is actually my own #1 creative obstacle. If [......