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, …
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Color Analysis and the Question of Who Is Wrong
We tend to speak about color as if it were a simple matter of fact. I don’t look good in pink. It sounds scientific, like …
The Moment You Question Everything You Started
Five years in business. Fifty years old. Ten years married. And suddenly, everything feels up for review. And so you begin to look back. In …
What Remains When Everything Is Replaced
The Ship of Theseus puzzle gives this question form. A ship is repaired plank by plank until nothing original remains. Is it still the same …
Say It So I Can See You
Clarity, we tend to assume, is a technical virtue—something belonging to instruction manuals, contracts, or perhaps the more dutiful corners of communication. It does not, …
Shared Beauty: A Mother/Daughter Makeup Workshop
What happens when you stop doing your own makeup—and let someone who loves you take the lead? In this intimate Mother’s Day workshop at F.A.C.E. …
The Aesthetics of Asking
“Please” should be enough. It is structurally complete—polite, socially sanctioned, and a signal that we understand the boundaries between wanting and taking. And yet, for …
Intentionally Lose Yourself to Find Yourself
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, …
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: …