DOG & PONY SHOWS: Robert Lucy on Working with Particularly Large Commission (3/6)
This was a fantastic assignment and a great gig: a friend, who’s a successful screenwriter and owns a really great…
Branding Ideas
DOG & PONY SHOWS: Robert Lucy on Backgrounds (2/6)
For my animal portraits, I’ve created a signature of bright colorful, graphic backgrounds that are fresh, contemporary and timeless. But I love to be challenged…
DOG & PONY SHOWS: Robert Lucy on How He Got Started (1/6)
I first met Robert Lucy as co-creator (with his […]
CREATRICKS: Tackling Your Workspace (Stress-Busting Summer Series #1)
Like other animals, humans are greatly impacted by their […]
CREATRICKS: Writing Routines
What makes a writing routine successful? Routines deserve the good […]
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: Cynthia Kaplan, “Hold Up” (4/6)
I’ve written exactly one feature length movie and co-written two shorts. The feature, Pipe Dream, starred Mary Louise Parker and Martin Donovan and had a very…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Cynthia Kaplan, “A Squirrel Stores His Nuts” (3/6)
Some ideas are songs. That’s just the way it is. I wrote an essay for Organic Style Magazine about sex after childbirth. Not immediately after, but, you know, at…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Cynthia Kaplan, “Better Safer Warmer” (2/6)
There was a time when humor pieces appeared on the Times Op-Ed, page. Over the span of a couple of years, I wrote about things like President Clinton’s puppy…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Cynthia Kaplan, “The Few, The Proud” (1/6)
Cynthia Kaplan inspires instant fandom for her smart subversiveness. Though […]
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, “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…
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…