In letting yourself feel what was lost, you may find the conviction to keep creating. 

Happy Father's Day! Here's a very short story from my in-progress memoir.

We remember what we remember. 

Three reasons to join a nonprofit arts board.

Use the right kind of discipline so you can't help but make art every day.

Take care of your inner Diva and she'll take care of you.

What relative from your family tree could support the art you're making today?

What if they wrote a song about your novel?

Showing up at events where you don't know anyone can be painful. Here's what I do to calm myself and stay in the game.

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel... words from writer Annie Dillard

Do you want to be an expert emailer or a great artist? 

Giving a good reading takes practice. Here's a glimpse at what I do before, during and after a public reading.

Resist the fantasies of fame or ruin. Just work. Pick up the needle, choose the thread, sew the next patch in. If it pleases, leave it. If it doesn’t, rip it out and start again.

Go find the image that will capture your true north. 

You're probably better at giving a compliment than you are at receiving one. In honor of National Compliment Day, learn 4 new ways to stand a little longer in the limelight.

This one question will help you tweak or overhaul your website so that it's working for your audience, whoever they are. 

A couple of weeks ago, I found myself on a Friday afternoon trudging home with no plans for the evening or the next day. On the brink of feeling sorry for myself that I hadn't called a friend to make plans, an idea struck me.