on communicating what matters Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson once wrote: “What the eye does is to find and focus on the particular...

Art, Generosity, and Life Art is not a competition. Art enriches us all. Life is not a competition, either. I’ve been working my way...

And then… The slow return to the sense of feet on ground. The slow return to the sound of birdsong, or cars, or laughter. The slow...

What do we do? We change the song. We listen to a different beat. New words. We shift perspective. When I write, I pick a song, put it on...

The café I’m writing in is playing Johnny Cash’s masterful cover of Trent Reznor’s classic song, “Hurt.” It reminds me of an Oxford Goth...

As a person who has created art of some sort since childhood, and through many life changes, full time work, chronic illness, moving,...

I spent last week in a rented beach house with four other writers. We ate, wrote, wrote, went for walks, wrote, ate, wrote, and slept. It...

– Tananarive Due Baby steps are hard. But they are deeply important to take. A friend asked recently if I was feeling extra anxiety...

Two days later, it became clear as I peered into the slim crevasse: beneath her careful ministrations, creation was occurring. This wasp...