Portfolio Careers in Action
In honor of Labor Day, we wanted to spend some time thinking about all the work creative individuals do to make a creative career successful. This is not the glamorous stuff. This is everything else. And of course, all month […]
September 2016 Tasks
Is “summer hibernation” a thing? Where people stay inside because it is too unpleasantly hot and humid to be outside? If it is, I’m declaring it officially over for 2016. There is a lovely, crisp chill in the air […]
Top Ten Reasons to Learn – Portfolio Career Edition
Top 10 reasons to take Goal Setting for Portfolio Careers from Minerva Financial Arts, part of the Starting SMART online learning series. Because no one taught you how to build a creative career. Because writing “SMART” goals makes you feel […]
August 2016 Tasks
We’re surrounded by leaders. Loud ones, quiet ones. Natural ones, reluctant ones. Servant ones, and grandiose ones. Ones that make us proud. Others that make us resolute. With the conventions complete, our political leaders are campaigning for the fall presidential […]
The Cash Connection
Quick: What’s the last purchase you made? Odds are, it was today. And odds are it wasn’t with cash. (My last purchase was with a credit card; I bought lunch for my team at a café. Before that, […]
Financial Freedom
Imagine this: You never have to say yes to something you’d rather say no to. We all have those sorts of projects, no matter our creative medium. Perhaps it is a commercially viable print (when you’d rather be doing one-of-a-kind […]
July 2016 Tasks
Happy Independence Day! This weekend I re-watched Empire Records. Naturally, it is the best possible movie to watch circa Independence Day. “Damn the man, save the empire” is dangerously close to what I imagine was yelled in 1776. (Or maybe […]
Straddling Duality
Huge thanks to the Clark Hulings fund for adding this piece to their site! I had the pleasure of chairing a panel discussion in May that featured a variety of artists from across the artistic spectrum. And they all […]
Curiosity versus Fear
My daughter came home from school a few months ago and reported that a classmate’s mother “didn’t like her.” “[Classmate] said his mom doesn’t like me,” she said. I remember he words exactly, along with the puzzling expression she […]
Beautiful Distractions
Small confession: I was interrupted three times during the first paragraphs of Verena von Pfetten’s piece in the Times last month about—you guessed it—being distracted. Twice my daughter asked me to refill her water gun for an ongoing arms […]
