How Categorizing My Art Held Me Back

Jan 8, 2023 | Creative People, Creative Process, Fine Art, My Creative Journey, Painting

Beautiful Paia in Maui. Photograph by Melanie Biehle, November 2022 Sometimes the message is subtle. In other times, our intuition knocks us down with knowledge like a rogue wave. My epiphany was closer to the latter.   If you’ve looked around my website lately... Read More

Behind the Scenes: Daily Journaling

Dec 15, 2022 | Creative People, Creative Process, Fine Art, Mindfulness, My Creative Journey, Writing

I honestly don’t know why it feels so hard to just “show up”. Maybe my brain is winning this round. You know how your brain can sometimes “reason” its way around everything until there’s nothing left? Or, more likely in my case, it makes the thing into a much bigger... Read More

The 52 Lists Project by Moorea Seal

Sep 14, 2015 | Creative People, Creative Process, Creative Projects, Mindfulness, My Life, Writing

The first time I met Moorea Seal we had breakfast at The Fat Hen in Seattle and I collaborated with her on her 52 Lists Project. At the time, it was a series of posts that Moorea was hosting on her blog, encouraging women and creatives everywhere to use them as a tool... Read More

A Creative Experiment in “Doing It All”

Apr 20, 2015 | Creative Process, Creative Strategy, Fine Art, Mindfulness, My Creative Journey

  A couple of weeks ago I spent an afternoon cleaning my bathroom while I listened to Jess Lively’s amazing interview with Hal Elrod. There is so much inspiration here – both practical and spiritual. Listen to it. I swear it makes cleaning the bathroom... Read More

Space: A Tale of Longing & Living

Dec 19, 2014 | Family, Hand Lettering, Mindfulness, My Life, Storytelling

Yesterday Nathaniel invited me into his room to play with him. “Let’s play bad guy and good guy, Mommy! No, wait, you be Wonder Woman and I’ll be the Human Torch, no wait…” At some point I threw in, “Hey, do you want to play a game... Read More