Life is short. I just learned a high school friend passed away from a tough battle with cancer. Sam was a son, dad, friend, artist, athlete and loved life. It felt like he was living life on his terms. Here’s a video he made last Fall highlighting his art. I have 2 simple thoughts as […]
4 tips to declare independence (today).
Happy 4th of July! Tomorrow we celebrate Independence Day in America. I honestly got confused about what actually happened on this date in 1776. I knew it had to do with the Declaration of Independence, but what happened in what order? My history lessons from 20 years ago failed me (sorry Mr Hoduski…my high school […]
Have you gotten soft? 4 values of hard work.
2 BIG Projects In the past few weeks I’ve completed 2 big projects that required an amount of hard, physical labor on my part. A beautiful garden First, I promised Kia a set of raised garden beds for her Mother’s Day gift. I spent a weekend doing research, gathering materials, building and installing the boxes. […]
What will you say to your daughter?
Sarah Kay Sarah Kay is a spoken word artist who also travels the country encouraging children and teens to express themselves through spoken word poetry. She began her story at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC at the age of 14, and she’s never looked back. In her TED presentation (which I encourage you to […]
The Tooth Fairy (among other reasons I’m not perfect).
The tooth fairy & the Bondurant residence. This week I received this text from Jen Basford: I thought of you this morning, as the tooth fairy forgot to stop by AGAIN…sigh…you think I’d remember after the millionth sad face (emoticon for a little sad face). Jen’s text was in response to a conversation we had […]
What to do when you don’t want to do it.
Nobody talks about this. The past week, I’ve suffered a massive bout of writers block. Day in and day out I don’t really know what I want to write. My recent writing has been okay – not good, not great…just okay. This morning I woke up and just didn’t know if I could do it. […]
It’s not easy, so not everyone is doing it.
Photo Talk Forum. This month I am the featured teacher on Lori Nordstrom’s Photo Talk Forum. So far it has been both a lot of fun and a challenge to keep to conversation going. This week on PTF, I posted about the Maker’s vs Manager’s schedule. I posted similar thoughts here on The Collective a […]
How to keep from crashing and burning.
A moral failure. Bobby Petrino, head football coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks, lost his job this week. He lost his job after wrecking his Harley Davidson on April 1st. That wasn’t the problem. It wasn’t that there was a passenger riding with him. The problem wasn’t that passenger was Petrino’s mistress (Petrino is married with 4 […]
7 ways to find inspiration for your Word of the Year.
2012 Word of the Year In 2011, I began a Word of the Year challenge for myself. I shared a lot of what I learned right here on The Collective (see the summary of my lessons on Freedom). For 2012 I challenged you to join me in choosing one word to focus on in your […]
RISK = The potential for pain.
2012 Word of the Year I learned from my 2011 Word of the Year (freedom) the power video has in learning and growing. It puts in a story how I am feeling about my word, my life, my situation, my future. My word for 2012 is RISK. Through my experience of applying for Photographers Ignite, […]
