DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “Lehman’s Mind is an Arc” (1/6)
So happy and honored that David Lehman, the de facto dean of American Poetry is this week’s Featured Creative. Unlike so many…
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DISCOVERIES: Julie Flanders, “Joyride (The Book)” (1/6)
Julie Flanders is a master lyrical shape-shifter. Over the years, her award-winning songwriting skills (honed since her teens) have morphed into related manifestations…
CREATRICKS: Tackling Your Workspace (Stress-Busting Summer Series #1)
Like other animals, humans are greatly impacted by their […]
INTERDEPENDENCE: Cynthia Kaplan, “We Were the Donner Party” (6/6)
Sometimes the best way to get people to hear your music is to give them something to watch. I played this new song at gigs all winter, and I knew that if I didn’t make…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Cynthia Kaplan, “Kegger” (5/6)
I know that there must be women and men who stay home with their kids and crank out tome after tome or start foundations or make a mint selling quilts on Etsy. I, however…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “The Life Cycle of a Fruit Fly” (6/6)
The life cycle of drosophila melanogaster, / also known as the common fruit fly, / consists of copulation, which lasts 15-20 minutes, then the…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “Not So Much Falling in Love as Leaping into It” (5/6)
In January my older brother Paul came out without even saying a single word; / I found him wrapped around the body of another…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “All Human Beings Spend 1/3 of Their Lives Asleep” (4/6)
In physics class last year our professor talked about how dark energy / is still a transient concept, something that scientists…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “Poem for the Day I Cut My Hair in Memory of You Leaving” (3/6)
Because you moved to Canada and left me here with the cat / and a few hundred bags…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “The Summer I Shrank and You Expanded” (2/6)
The year we dissected a squid and ate its tentacles piece / by piece down at the pier next to your house was the year…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “For Twenty-Year-Olds Who Have Never Been Loved” (1/6)
In the spirit of July’s Interdependence theme, this week’s Featured Creative is the inspiringly prolific poet, Meggie Royer.
The Recovering Politician
Steps 11-12For those readers who have been carefully digesting Steps One through Ten that precede this chapter, you might have concluded…
The Recovering Politician”
Steps 9-10The lessons outlined in this chapter are almost universal. For example, if your business is suffering from a public…
The Recovering Politician
Steps 7-8I will always savor the moment: proudly standing on a flower-covered dias in a packed, Missouri Houe chamber, with my right hand raised, repeating my oath…
The Recovering Politician
Steps 4-6That’s why it is so important to connect on some relatable level. You have something in common with your audience, but it can’t be your wrecked car and their toothache.
The Recovering Politician
steps 1-3I was disappointed with myself. Like most successful politicians–like most successful leaders in any profession, I imagine–I’m a registered Type A control-freak.