The dangers of cutting deals that undermine our desires I wish I could tell you I'm familiar with Brad Paisley's work, and that's how I found the below quote rather than telling you the truth. "When you save face, but your heart breaks, well, you've cut the wrong deal!" The truth is I play a lot ...

  In his 2015 art installation, Jeff Koons placed blue gazing balls in front of 35 repainted and enlarged classic masterpieces like Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa or Titian’s Venus and Mars. You have to give it to the man because not many people look at a classic and say to themselves, “You know what this...

Don't feel bad about your erratic creative journey In Barranquilla, on Good Fridays, my mom wouldn’t let us do anything at all. She would say that anything we did, we were doing it to Jesus’ body. So when my friends asked if I could join them in the field to play soccer, I would ask my mom. She r...

Next week, I'm hosting a monthly in-person storytelling circle in Petaluma at Grand Central Coffee Shop. I'm producing this show with two friends, and one of them invited me to present it to a group of artists she guides through Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. I thought, "I can pitch an event a...