“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...
read moreLet’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...
read more2021: 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...
read moreGratitude 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...
read moreFinding 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...
read moreConfusing 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...
read moreIt’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...
read moreMissing 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...
read moreCorona 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...
read moreWhen 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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