2022 Recap / 2023 Word of the Year: Leap

Launching a weekly creative prompt challenge!

Rest is a funny thing

And a preview of my brand refresh

The perils of productivity

Feeling unproductive during rest, the next two weeks, self-soothing vs self-care, and some getaway photos.

📸 Photo Essays

📸✍🏼 Challenge: Shoot a dreary Midwestern landscape in B&W

Making myself be creative

Happy 7 years of newsletter writing

Paid subscription discounts & a reflection on 7 years of writing emails

🔎 In Focus

🔎 In Focus: Interview with photographer Michael Flores

And, some other things I'm trying out for December

Behind the scenes of writing about Vietnamese-owned coffee businesses

Welcome to my writing anxiety loop.

My writing process

A detailed look at what goes into a reported & researched article

An update on learning Mandarin

Did you know there are three ways to say "walk"?

Remembering Twitter

An eulogy of sorts, #coffeetwitter

Changes

“The only constant is change,” a sentence I’ve probably written half a dozen times over to describe social media but I’m sure it’s been used to describe life, too.

Should business owners be on social media?

And my latest article on growing coffee as a houseplant