Four simple ways to make eye-catching marketing graphics — If you’re doing any kind of side hustle, marketing is an inevitable part of it. And marketing sucks. There’s a lot to wrap your head around — so many different avenues filled with all kinds of details like SEO and algorithms and ad budgets. Honestly, I don’t know jack about…

Finding inspiration in old (very old) work — I’ve been thinking a lot about poetry lately and I suddenly remembered that I used to have an account on AllPoetry. Was it still there? Yes, yes it was. Could I log in? Also yes. I thought I’d take a read of the 70 poems I had posted there from…

Or at least, I hope so — Today, I’m not feeling motivated. I want to write more, want to share, but the inspiration has just vanished. Poof, gone in a puff of disappointing smoke. A phrase popped into mind — starting is hard, do it anyway. …

Can anyone hear me? — It’s almost half a year since I published anything here, and a year since May 2021 — the month in which I published to Medium every day. …

What if you could forget about impressing and start expressing? — If I lived in an ideal world, without a day job with a dress code (sigh), I would be a magnificent creature. …

Everything and nothing — This year, our plum tree hardly bloomed. Each year signals the change of seasons — a sweet, pink herald. But this year it budded, the first blooms unfurled, and then it was over in a haze of fresh scarlet leaves. October, normally a fun flurry of photoshoots to celebrate the…