Nobody says “Picasso, the male artist.” – Patti Smith
What She Said, September 2: Patti Smith
Alice Fairfax
From her career as an improvisational Disney entertainer, Alice developed best practices for your organization to find and tell your best stories. Her keynotes and online workshops are fun, interactive, and give your team the tools they need to tell your brand stories. A publicist for touring Broadway shows, an actor and a published author, she hosts the StoryMaven Podcast. Find her at alicefairfax.com
What She Said, September 1: Beatrix Potter
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. -Beatrix Potter
What She Said, August 31: Martha Graham
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. – Martha Graham
500 Lifetimes and Trying to Find My Own
I was looking for comfort of some kind when I read a friend and fellow writer’s post. He wrote that this is something that I am “500 lifetimes away from understanding.” He was saying it to the world, to white people, but I took it personally. I hope that was his intention because it is changing me. Maybe trying to understand isn’t the best goal. Maybe taking it personally is a better one.
Creativity During Crisis or Five Reasons I Need Tim Gunn More Than Ever
I’m having a creative crisis along with the stress of the global pandemic outside my door and the uncertainty of life when we emerge. I’m trying to take the ‘extra’ time I […]
How to Leave A Legacy Without Knowing It
In 1981 my dad pulled our sky blue K car wagon into the Corrine gate at the naval base in Orlando, Florida. This would be our home. He served his final post […]
A Very Incarnational Christmas
When Henry was ten, he was invited to do a reading in the children’s choir Christmas concert. The reading from the book of Luke also happens to be what Linus says during […]
Doing the Dishes at 50 or How to Change Your Perspective on the Mundane
My niece is 22 years old. She has Cystic Fibrosis. Ginny’s life has bent towards a timeline. When she was born, CF patients lived until they were 14. When she was 14, the […]
Everything Takes 12 Steps
I accomplished one thing this weekend. It took all weekend for me to fix three porch chairs. I attribute this to the phenomenon that all things require twelve steps. Here are […]
Finding Your Now — An Autobiography of Energy
I grew up in the seventies outside of Washington DC. My parents were military people. Mom was a secretary for a senator on the Hill in the sixties. She dressed like Jackie […]
The Gloria Sirens 