On My Mind.

Musings. Observations. Ideas. Creativity. Solutions.

“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

A Brand Love Story: HMHB.

I just finished a dream job. It had all the best components: enthusiasm, buy-in to the brand process, creativity and that special sauce that appears when all the planets are rightly aligned. Laura from Sharp 11 (many of you know us as Sharp + Sweet) and I just did the...

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Let’s Pinkie Swear.

You can feel things changing, right? We appear to be coming out of our hibernating quarantine; slowly, hopefully, and dare I say, timidly? Like many of you, I've spent the last 13 months primarily in one place. An exciting day involved numerous rings of the doorbell...

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2021: Comin’ In Hot.

Hey 2021. I see you.  Anyone else get the feeling that clients just want to hit the ground running this year and put 2020 far behind them? I am all for this, and grateful that I'm working on so many awesome projects. And I want to share an experience my Business...

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Gratitude in 2020

I last wrote about Joy in a Pandemic. There have been some charming surprises in this awful year. #schittscreek. But November always seems to be when we collectively focus on gratitude, given Thanksgiving. I'll admit. This year has sucked. From my father dying to epic...

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Finding Joy In A Pandemic.

In April, I thought things would be back on track in August. But, alas. We're plugging along, we're finding our way, we're doing our best. It's all we can expect at a time like this. Work for me has been (thankfully) fairly busy. I have finished up a couple of...

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Confusing Feelings.

In 2016, I graduated from Leadership Palm Beach County, an incredible program that "brings together leaders from the public, private and nonprofit sectors to build and steward a vibrant, interconnected community." What it really did was teach me so much about the area...

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It’s Happening.

Coming at you from the 78th day of May. Are we there yet? The slog has been real, but I feel a shift. Things are sort of, slightly, returning to . . . we need a new word. Normal will never be normal. But I went for my annual doctor's appointment yesterday and it felt...

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Missing New Orleans.

Although I truly have no idea what day it is, I wanted to write. You see, I'm leaving soon for a conference in New Orleans, from Sunday until Tuesday. And THEN, my husband, our daughters, their boyfriends, and five other couples from around the country will be joining...

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Corona Vicious.

What's new? With all this extra time on my hands I decided to reach back out to my community. The last several months have taken me out of my regular monthly emails; my father passed, I moved my mother into Memory Care, and just as that was settling down . . . . well...

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When It’s Not The Full Monty.

I love a good start-from-scratch brand project, complete with untapped creativity and limitless possibilities. But what if you don't need the Full Monty? Maybe your logo needs a refresh and your brand (complete with fonts, color palettes and design elements) needs to...

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