Sitemap - 2024 - a vibrant mind

A Year in Words: Lessons on Writing, Growth, and Showing Up

Books I Loved, Books I Recommend, and Books I Can’t Wait to Read

The Desk That Holds Us: A Love/Hate Story

Have Your Creative Goals Become a Rut?

A Rational Argument to Be a Little Delulu

I Sigh, Therefore I Breathe

Overwhelmed but Make It Creative

Why Art Needs Time (and So Do We)

How Much of Your Art Is Actually Yours?

72,000 Photos and a Big Idea

What Would Sasha Fierce Do?

Leonardo da Vinci Sucked at Finishing Things—Why Are You Worried?

Interruptions Are Killing Your Creativity

Busy Doing Nothing

The Photo Everyone Takes (and Why I Took It Anyway)

What If It All Works Out?

It was always for you

Are You Stuck in a Loop?

Rethinking What We Endure

It Will Take Effort and You Will Suck (At First)

Remystify What You Do

Building a Creative Life and Career: 10 Lessons I Wish I Knew Sooner

Your River of Creativity: Change is Inevitable

Rewire Your Brain Through Creativity

From My Desk: 10 Tools to Enhance Your Creative Work

Why Consistency and I Don't Always Get Along

The Power of Pairing: Inside the Creative Minds of PappasBland

Strangling My Art with Neglect

Grief in Focus: Balancing Documentation and Presence

The Moments We Keep: Photography and Memory

Am I Being Realistic or Just Sabotaging Myself?

Imperfection Practice

Should you burn your work?

Popping the Illusion of Productivity

"For anybody who could use a break"

Your Art Is More Than Metrics

Instagram Verus Reality

Mindful Meandering: How Nature Resets Our Creative Clocks

Chase the Muse, Not the Market

Founders that know nothing and selling poop knives

Apples, Baths, and Bestsellers: The Rituals of Creative Minds

Asses Your Work + Find Your Style

Your Art, Not Theirs: When Good Advice Isn’t Right

Some Like It Slow and Long

The Myth of Being Ready

Burnout Edition