There is a version of you, one that has been shaped by repetition, refinement, and accumulation of decisions about what works and what does not, …
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Poison Ivy, Reluctant Muse
I thought tending to my garden would bring clarity. Instead, I met you. Somewhere between pulling weeds and raking leaves, I must have brushed against …
The Small Mythologies of Ordinary People
Human beings have always tried to understand one another through characters. Long before personality tests and carefully branded identities, we relied on something more poetic: …
BOOK CLUB: The Artist’s Way
NEXT MEETING: Week 12 Discussion | Sunday, June 14th from 4PM-5PM Many people subtly suspect they are more creative than their lives currently allow. The …
Cul-de-Sac
The Yeiser Art Center Members + Sponsors Exhibition has always felt to me like a room where private meditations are briefly made public. Objects that …
Beauty as Nervous System Regulation
Perhaps this is what beauty does when we carry it long enough. It moves inward and becomes reflex. Cosmetics always felt like this to me …
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Wearable Love: Makeup, Fashion, and the Heart
Love is not only a feeling; it is a practice. The feeling comes from the practice itself, from repeated decisions we make to return to …
Where Old Versions of Us Go
There is something audacious about donating clothes, a gesture that pretends to be practical while secretly carrying the weight of a confession. Inside that bag …
On the Medium We Let Decide
There is a brief elevator scene in Mad Men in which a young model explains to Pete Campbell that she was called in for a …