February 2022 Message
This Month’s Money Message: Gather It’s the start of February, which means your mailboxes are likely overflowing with tax forms from 2021. After all, creative individuals often do independent work for a variety of clients, which means the stack of […]
January 2022 Message
This Month’s Money Message: Pause I used to work with an amazing woman who refused to make major life decisions in January or February. She swore that none of us (in the northern hemisphere at least) were thinking clearly, what […]
December 2021 Message
This Month’s Money Message: Breathe Take a deep breath. No really. Take a breath. And maybe one more too. You’ve done it. You’ve survived another not-quite-normal-and-actually-sometimes-awful year with stops and starts, growth and setbacks, accomplishments and challenges. In January I […]
November 2021 Message
This Month’s Money Message: Retire One of the biggest benefits to a creative, entrepreneurial life is flexibility. (Oh sure, that can be a drawback too, but let’s focus on the benefit for now.) That benefit really comes into play when […]
October 2021 Message
This Month’s Money Message: Invest My grandmother had an ironing day each week; it was the day after laundry day, and she would spend some amount of time ironing the clothes that had been washed. There is something delightfully intentional […]
September 2021 Message
This Month’s Money Message: Monitor Upside down. That’s how one client a few weeks ago described how she was feeling. And who can blame her? The world feels upside down right now. Performing artists are planning for live events, while […]
August 2021 Message
This Month’s Money Message: Prepare An unexpected vet bill to save a furry friend. The sudden loss of a job without warning. A decision to extend a vacation by one more week to get some extra writing done. What do […]
July 2021 Message
This Month’s Money Message: Manage Merriam-Webster defines manage as “to handle or direct with a degree of skill.” I love that there is an active part of that definition: Handling, directing. It implies action, rather than passive indifference. I also […]
June 2021 Message
This Month’s Money Message: Embrace I attended my first in-person event in a very long time last month: A year-end outdoor fashion show fundraiser for my college. I hugged a lot of people. We all did this delightfully awkward dance, […]
May 2021 Message
This Month’s Money Message: Reassess I was listening to an interview with Anne Lamott and she quoted E.L. Doctorow: “Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make […]
