I’ve read a lot of different books and articles about mastery and deep practice, from Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success to The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle. Gladwell was the first author I heard talk about the idea that it takes at least 10,000 hours of practice Read more…
I love living in greater Minneapolis/St. Paul. In the winter time people get outdoors to celebrate the cold with things like the St. Paul Winter Carnival and the City of Lakes Loppet Ski Festival. Last night, on an unusually mild evening, was the luminary loppet—an opportunity to cross country ski, Read more…
A Circle of Friends Today I am honoring my friendship group as a bright light in my life. With them, I play, move, laugh, cry, and learn. We are a bunch of older women who are not afraid to get silly, dance, and play. We also listen to and support Read more…
This morning as I was thinking about a new photography project I was asking myself… Where do ideas come from? And I realized that looking at the work of other photographers is a wonderful inspiration to me. It’s not the only place that ideas for my work come from, but Read more…
Every so often I go through my old catalog of photographs to remove photographs that I’m sure I will never use. Today as I was going through the photos occasionally a photograph would intrigue me and I would stop to work on it a bit or decide that there was Read more…