Contradictory Goals
Sometimes I’m a writer; sometimes I’m a CPA; sometimes I’m a CPA talking to writers. Sometimes I’m an artist; sometimes I’m a finance nerd; sometimes I’m a finance nerd teaching finance to artists. Sometimes the contradictions collide beautifully. And they […]
Business Tips for Designers
Yesterday my final blog post for We Blog Design went live. It is the fifth in a five-part series, which covers business tips for designers. In crafting the posts, I sought the insights of three of my favorite designers, Jim […]
Me? A Researcher?
I am so excited to announce that I’ll be presenting a paper called, “When I Grow Up I Want to Budget: The Connection Between Non-Art Tasks and a Successful Art Career,” at the Southeastern Conference of Art Colleges in Greensboro, […]
Crafting the Script for a (Financially) Fulfilling Life
Scene One: Stage lights rise on a conference room setting. The center table is full of playwrights, twelve of them, who have just completed a two-day financial literacy boot camp. The organizers of the event stand at the front of […]
The Most Delightful Surprises
I prepared to lead last week’s lunch at learn at the Hired Guns Academy by listing the six financial tools I wanted to address and adding a few notes on each. I touched on two of the three, and on […]
Business Tips for Designers
Thanks to Katie Treggiden of We Blog Design for publishing a series of business tips I penned for designers. My work was simplified tremendously by the help of three designers: Jim Richards of Townscape, Dorie Pickle of Creative Pickle, and […]
Taxes at the Rosewood Arts Centre
What a wonderful Saturday at the Rosewood Arts Center in the lovely City of Kettering, just south of Dayton, Ohio. My presentation, “Taxes for Artists,” offered during back-to-back breakout sessions was full of spirited, enthusiastic artists who asked great questions […]
Arts in Memoriam
I love Memorial Day. It is one of my favorite holidays, and not simply because it marks the unofficial start of summer. I love spring, I love the fresh, clean air of the outdoors. I love a holiday bike ride. […]
Author Q&A Published in DailyWorth
A huge thanks to DailyWorth for interviewing me and publishing a Q&A about Arts & Numbers in connection with its release this week. It was such a pleasure to talk to Sandy Fernandez, and I love how she captured the […]
Article in GuideStar on Financial Fraud
A huge thanks to GuideStar for publishing my article on tips for avoiding financial fraud in the non-profit world this month! This article was prompted by news out of Atlanta that the perpetrator of an embezzlement scheme (valued somewhere between […]
