Tag: Business

How many hats to you wear as an artist/entrepreneur?

There is a hat for every reason… baseball caps keep the sun out of our eyes when we are playing the game.  Straw hats cover the gardener working to pick weeds, till their garden and attend to the vegetable plants.   And there are sunday 

Whats so great about handcrafted cold processed soap?????

Until the early 1980s almost every bathroom had a few bars of soap… commercially made, bought in bulk from the grocery store.  TV commercials advocated virtues to using these bars of soap, and fed us a myth that if we used that soap we would develop special qualities…. beyond clean and fresh.  It was the heyday of brands like Irish Spring, Dial, and Dove.  Bar soap dominated the market, and we all used them. Then it happened – the advent of the liquid soap movement, and the antibacterial soap movement saw the ever expanding shelf displays of bottled liquid soap, of antibacterial soap.  The media whipped a frenzy of thoughts about how much bacteria was out there, and how we need to sanitize, to bomb our skin with antibacterial soaps.  And we did.

How do you juggle everything?

I eat breakfast with an old friend periodically, and in our conversation she looked into my eyes and said, how do you handle it all? You seem so organized and you seem to have every detail of your life in order. Inside my head, I 

wishes of my days

What do you wish you could do more every day? What a strange question. My mind races to answer this realizing my day, like yours, is filled with the tyranny of the urgent, the sudden distraction of something that pops up from nowhere and demands