May 2015 Tasks
Happy Star Wars Day! May is a month of seasonal celebration, whether we’re celebrating May Day, ancient floral customs, Mexico’s victory over France in the Battle of Puebla, or even Star Wars puns. It is a month of culminations, with […]
It’s the Little Things
It’s no secret that I love Kinfolk, the quarterly mindfulness magazine I discovered last year, thanks to a well-informed brother and his even more well-informed wife. This quarter’s edition — The Entrepreneurship Issue — is full of underlines, dog-eared pages, […]
Advocating in DC
Want to know what Minerva Research Assistant, Katy Treitmaier, has been up to? Here’s her summary of advocating for the arts in DC… A Memorable Trip A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to actively participate in the twenty-eighth […]
Off the Rails
March has been a busy month for us at Minerva Financial Arts. We’ve presented eight workshops and one two-day boot camp covering everything from pricing strategies to budgeting and taxes. What’s more? We kept up our work with the […]
Life Lessons from “Cinderella”
I took my daughter to Edward Liang’s World Premiere of Cinderella at Ballet Met Friday night, and we were joined by hundreds of other revelers, including friends, strangers, and some incredibly special family members. The performance was full of […]
Ordering Chaos
Small confession: I love doing my taxes. I can’t help it. I find it fulfilling to complete a year’s worth of financial reporting and creating summaries of how I spent my time and my resources for both personal and professional […]
The Bad One
We lovingly refer to the end and beginning of Daylight Savings Time as the “good one” and the “bad one,” respectively. We gain an extra hour of sleep when our clocks fall back each autumn, and the extra hour is […]
Envy-Based Design
I’m envious of anyone who can play with Legos and Pipe Cleaners all day. And yet, the idea of being a kindergarten teacher sounds like a level of hell Dante failed to describe adequately. But by reading The Pleasures and […]
February 2015 Tasks
February is heart-health month, in both the literal sense (take care of your heart muscle!) and the figurative sense. Are you protecting yourself and your heart physically, emotionally, creatively, and intellectually? Are you protecting your money and your finances […]
Opening Those Big Eyes
“The point of art is to elevate, not to pander,” John Canaday, the art critic (portrayed by Terence Stamp) in the movie Big Eyes tells us. And yet, the pandering nature of Walter Keane, the villain in Tim Burton’s […]
