The Happy Bondage of Addiction

THE HAPPY BONDAGE OF ADDICTION   Over the course the of next several posts I’d like to explain why creatives are at greater risk for addiction than the next person and what you can do to deal with your addictive tendencies, whether they manifest as an addiction...

10 Tips for Changing Artistic Direction

Here are ten principles for artists who sense that their current creative life has reached its natural limits and who want to move in a new direction. 1. Accept That Reinvention Is Part of the Artistic Life Many artists mistakenly believe that changing direction means...

Seeking an Illustrator

I’ve just finished writing a book called “Tales of the Creative Life” that is comprised of 75 short parables on the wonders and hardships of the creative life. The book will likely be illustrated and I’m looking for an illustrator. If...

The Beautiful Failure

Please enjoy the following fictionalized parable. And join me this coming week for a free webinar on the next generation of helping professional, the human experience specialist. Get registered for free here.  The beautiful failure Nina painted alone. She entered the...