Beauty has always asked something of us. Sometimes it asks us to stand before a painting or to listen to an orchestra. And sometimes, unexpectedly, …
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The Celebratory Cigarette
And yet, that is what makes it wonderful. The appeal is the convenience and the strange transformation that happens along the way. The gas station …
The Tattoo Artist with No Tattoos
Imagine meeting a tattoo artist with no tattoos. Would it make you pause? How about a makeup artist who doesn’t wear makeup? A wedding planner …
What Obsession Understands About Desire
Horror films are rarely about monsters. More often, they take ordinary human tendencies and push them to their logical conclusion. The supernatural simply illuminates what …
The Exchange Rate
One of the more surprising discoveries of visiting the Pacific Northwest has been the diminished status of makeup. People there wear makeup. But it seems …
A Feast For Starving Eyes
One of the least acknowledged forms of generosity is beauty made by ordinary people on ordinary days. These acts are rarely profitable. Often they are …
Following Your Heart Is Harder Than It Sounds
“Follow your heart” is among the most common pieces of advice we receive, and perhaps one of the most misleading. The phrase suggests that the …
What Remains When Nothing Properly Ends
Absence of closure rarely gets named directly, perhaps because it is so socially awkward. The pain of things that have not properly ended, and therefore …
The Work Behind What Looks Easy
Everything that looks effortless is usually heavily constructed. When I work with vintage compacts, they always look simple by the time they’re finished, obvious in …
Why Is This So Hard to Ignore?
May is Small Business Month and our local Chamber or Commerce chose the theme of Artificial Intelligence and built each week around it. Last year, …