When I was 13, I stopped doing art. Not that I gave up on all creative pursuits. I played viola in the school orchestra, and at 16 I discovered dance, my first Bliss, which I pursued with a manic passion, until I was permanently sidelined by an injury a few years later (long story). But… Continue Reading
Category Archives: What I’m Doing NOW
How To Buy Happiness
“What?” you may be thinking. “Has Melissa flipped her lid? Everyone knows you can’t buy happiness!” Ah, but they’re wrong. You can buy happiness. Just not in the way you probably think. Read on… True, accumulating stuff is not the route to happiness — I’ll be the first to grant that. But money can, indeed… Continue Reading
The Creative Ignition Club Is Officially Open!
You know that thing, when you lie down and close your eyes, and there’s this shift in consciousness that happens? What’s it called… Oh, yeah: sleep! That’s what I’m hoping to catch up on this week, after the marathon I’ve been running nonstop for the past.. week? Two weeks? Who remembers anymore? I didn’t do… Continue Reading
In Which Dangerously Delicious Becomes Downright Powerful (Announcing the Creative Ignition Club!)
It started off very innocently. A simple idea, really. Just a little tool box for creatives, to kick-start them into a daily creative practice. Just for one month. A kit to get them creatively ignited… Because if you can hang onto a daily practice for a month, it’s pretty much proof that you can hang… Continue Reading
Riding the Wave of NaNoWriMo (and an Announcement!)
During the decade+ that I spent building up my wedding art business, there were many years when I made my living from the art I made for clients, but I didn’t make any art to feed my soul. Actually, that’s not entirely true. Once a year I did make art for me: at the Friends… Continue Reading
Impact? Or Balance? And is that even the question?
It’s the ever-present dilemma (or at least it’s seemed that way in my life): happiness or greatness? Is it better to sacrifice balance (ie, health, relationships, simple pleasures, sanity…) in order to achieve greatness and make an enormous impact? Or to send out smaller ripples, maybe even pass into obscurity, but live a humane, balanced… Continue Reading