A teaching essay on the danger of accepting labels for our core self, from others or from ourselves — distinguishing real, learnable skills from an ever-changing ‘self’ that doesn’t truly exist, and warning how borrowed labels become limiting beliefs.
A description of an abstract artwork titled Ordered Chaos, offered for sale, inspired by Chaos Theory in mathematics — the artist playing with the idea that chaos can be ordered and generative, and reframing change as not always a bad thing.
A teaching essay outlining five kinds of peace — financial, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual — arguing that each must be tended, that you must heal yourself before helping others, and describing the marks of peace in each domain.
A brief description of an altered photograph studying a rooftop fire seen at a hotel in San Diego — an artistic exploration of what it is about fire that captures and holds the eye.
A teaching essay arguing that religion and science are complementary conduits to truth, and that faith can be a powerful vehicle for spiritual self-development — moving from identifying with our needs or ideologies toward seeing ourselves as children of the divine.
A practical teaching essay offering a method for hard decisions: list each option’s reasons, reduce each to its root emotional trigger, and notice whether the pull comes from the human mind — greed, ego, fear — or from the soul’s purpose, service and love.
A brief description of a photographic art study of an old tree stump — drawn to its pronounced rings and cracks as themes running through the years of the tree’s life, and the emptiness at the center marking its birth.
A personal essay on childhood limiting beliefs that resist removal, offering a technique of completing each negative belief with a positive extension rather than fighting it, then rereading the revised statements often to retrain the mind.
An art photograph of a candlelit statue casting the shadow of a couple on the wall behind it, presented as a study in how outward appearances make it impossible to tell whether a relationship is happy, struggling, or in conflict.
A reflective essay framing the author’s age-31 mid-life crisis as a catalyst for self-development, situating it within the cycle of human development stages and introducing manifesting as a learnable skill for shaping one’s own reality.
A step-by-step guide to manifesting: choosing what to attract, writing it by hand, feeling and acting on inner guidance, plus warnings about manifesting from fear versus love and the difference between influence and control.
A sketch of a large aloe plant, roughly five to six feet tall, observed on the highest hill in St. Maarten against a stone wall, drawn to study a scene that stayed with the artist.
A teaching essay proposing that the eleven stages of human development are not a linear staircase but a cycle we traverse repeatedly, with affirmations and daily reminders for spending more time in the later, more peaceful stages.
A description of a mixed-media artwork honoring Salvador Dali’s brief cubist period, built from several smaller canvases with strategically placed holes and glass tiles forming the seeds, offered for sale.
An overview essay aligning the developmental research of Kegan, Fowler and others into a single eleven-stage cycle spanning social, religious and spiritual growth, described as a circle we travel repeatedly rather than a staircase we climb.
A short note on an early adult artwork reinterpreting Salvador Dali’s ‘Big Thumb and Dead Bird’ in sand tones with painted-sand texture, reflecting Dali’s lasting influence on the artist since her teenage years.
A spiritual essay exploring the idea that everyone you meet embodies some aspect of yourself, arguing that recognizing those reflections makes unkindness impossible while revealing which parts of yourself still need forgiveness.
A candid photograph of the author’s friend Paul, well known among guitarists, intended to capture the loneliness of a gifted person surrounded by others and the unpretentious personal space of a great mind.
A personal account of an experiment to learn nine languages simultaneously using a 3×3 spatial matrix of hand-made flash cards, chosen for global reach and variety, aiming to uncover what is common across cultures and languages.
An autobiographical song about finding the courage to leave a harmful situation and later helping others escape too, presented with chords and full lyrics as encouragement for anyone who needs to leave.
A vacation close-up photograph contrasting the sharpness of cactus and metal with the softness of a clay pot and flame, capturing a moment of balance the artist wanted to carry with her.
An autobiographical song for mothers about the habit of self-sacrifice for family approval, and the realization that loved ones are happiest when one is fulfilled, presented with chords and full lyrics.
A short reflection accompanying a close-up rose artwork, where the artist examines her instinctive rejection of the color pink as tied to a wounded aspect of femininity, and considers meeting that part of herself with compassion.
A personal essay on overcoming internal resistance to creative work — retiring a controlling master task list in favor of delegate/do-now/schedule, protecting sacred creative time, and confronting the negative self-talk that surfaces as one nears their true purpose.
An original song, presented with chords and lyrics, about the guilty delight of watching karma catch up with someone who wronged you — a playful, tongue-in-cheek anthem of schadenfreude written in a fit of laughter.