Secret Gardens

We are made of stories. Tangled and tightly woven with lines of shared memory. Spun and undone. Then woven again, anew. We are made of stories. Living our days through the story l i n e s …we leave behind……for others. We are made of stories.Tuesday, the 9th April, 2024I’ve recently been getting back into writing poetry and working with my hands and I wanted to

While social media woes are truly a first world problem, there were some real threats in the recent h*cking to my security, finances and identity. So, even though I don’t want to keep going on about it, one of the ways I thought I could create good out of this saga is to help prevent it from happening to others. So I’ve got a couple of security tips and things I learned the har

Is there room for you online? Or is everybody else already doing what you want to do…But better...And more successfully…Let’s discuss. Mentioned in the episode: Ann Upton & below is an example of some of her gorgeous work.Also mentioned: Xanthe Berkeley’s interview on Hashtag Authentic. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or g

Creative currency is a concept I created for myself to give these very abstract feelings a measure that I could explain—both to myself—and to others as I needed to. It’s a similar thing to “having capacity” or “the bandwidth” as people say, but for some reason that never felt like it captured it for me.There are at least 4 components or four types of “dollars” tha

If you’re a creative or just someone who is sharing their work in any capacity - particularly online, you’ve probably found that in your pursuits of creating content or developing your website, or product descriptions or anywhere you need to write about your brand… …that you’re not sure what to say, and how it’s meant to sound. And all of the research you’ve done has

Ok, tell me if this is not the most poetic way to begin a podcast - we’re actually going to be talking about voice. In the first 2 episodes we’ll be looking at ‘voice’ from a couple of different angles. Episode 2 is more about your brand voice and how to find it - (or rather why ‘finding it’ isn’t actually the answer…) but this episode is more about…Coming out of