Foundations

December 2, 2015

I have a daughter in fifth grade and a son in third.  They do much of their work on IPads now.  If they have to go old school and use actual pencil and paper, often times they just take a picture of their work and turn it in digitally.  And yet they still have to […]

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What Do You Give And Why?

November 6, 2015

There is no such thing as balance in creative business.  Balance is equilibrium, one point on the continuum where opposing forces are offset equally.  In a world of fluidity, balance is an illusion.  Literally, you would have to be recalibrating your art, your process, your life daily, hourly to maintain it and to what end?  […]

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Desire, Determination and Faith

October 29, 2015

If the opposite of what you tell me about you, your art and your creative business cannot be true, you have just told me nothing and wasted my time.  My design business prides itself on incredible creativity, service and attention to detail.  Seriously?  What design business does not pride itself on creativity, service and attention […]

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What Is Your Word?

October 22, 2015

I am perpetually fascinated by a creative business owner’s elevator pitch.  Most start with the obvious – I am a [you fill in the blank – designer, photographer, architect], then move on to a specialty – high-end residential, luxury destination weddings, commercial work, then, maybe, comes the style statement – my focus is modern, or […]

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Atonement and Intention

October 7, 2015

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of talking to many wedding professionals in Los Angeles as part of Honeybook’s Hive Educational Series.  Really a wonderful event and an awesome experience. Originally, the talk was supposed to be about how to get your groove back for your creative (and, in this case, wedding) business.  […]

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The World In Pain

September 16, 2015

Everywhere I look these days, there is profound human suffering.  Sometimes it is at the hands of Mother Nature — earthquakes, wildfires, Ebola, etc.  And while completely tragic and horrific, these natural disasters/outbreaks pale in comparison to what mans’ inhumanity to man has been in recent times. Without judgment on relative import or which side […]

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The World Continues To Shift

September 10, 2015

In 2004, I binge watched The West Wing to catch up to the current episodes (it ran for two more seasons).  I used my Netflix account to get the DVDs.  Super cool for me since I grew up in a generation where if you did not watch a particular show it was gone unless you […]

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Gay Marriage

June 30, 2015

In the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling making gay marriage legal throughout the United States, I wanted to take a moment to revisit the issue.  Marriage equality has been near and dear to me ever since my time in law school (1992).  I never understood the right to discriminate and all things that […]

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We Did The Best We Could

June 22, 2015

What does it mean to say we did the best we could?  For the most part, those who are saying it are saying it in the context of failure, personal or professional.  Those in the midst of success rarely say we just did the best we could and look what happened.  No, they are basking […]

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Back To Basics

May 18, 2015

With creative business in full swing – tis the season after all — it is easy to get lost in the doing and ignore what lies underneath.  Yes, at a point, it is all about chop wood, carry water.  You can just never forget you are not farmers, you are artists.  There always, always has […]

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