I recently became aware of a sort of movement, if you can call it that: A colleague pointed me in the direction of “Buy Handmade,” a website and organization that is encouraging people to pledge to spend their money on handmade gifts this holiday season. http://www.buyhandmade.org/why-buy-handmade Handmade objects — crafts, art clothing, paintings, photographs, jewelry – make [...]
Archive for September, 2008
How Shopping Can Save the World
Posted in Creative Communities, tagged buy handmade, creative gifts on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Building an Audience
Posted in Music, Performing, tagged building an audience, Dewey Hall, Monterey General Store on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night was our turn on the (locally) heralded stage of the Monterey General Store (http://www.montereystore.com/). There was a small audience, but a nice mix of friends and strangers. It’s a homey store in the old style, filled with little locally made surprises from wine to llama wool — and it’s an absolutely wonderful place [...]
Routine and Chaos
Posted in Musing on Creativity, tagged Craft on September 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Quite a few years ago, I got into a fitness routine, stopping every evening at a gym by a subway stop on my way home from work. It was an easy habit to get into. When I went freelance, my exercise routine went by the wayside. I felt like I had all this freedom, all this time, to do [...]
When It All Comes Together
Posted in Creative Communities, Music, Performing, Teaching, tagged Add new tag, Crissey Farm, open mike on September 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes, something happens that sort of pulls it all together, and lets you see where what you’re doing makes sense. It’s been an incredibly busy week. David and I got back from Nashville on Sunday night, and went right to work teaching on Monday morning. Then I started on some article writing while he drove up to Pittsfield to pick up [...]
A Chain Letter Backwards
Posted in Creative Communities, tagged health insurance, Lori Hall Steele on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I hate to sound preachy, and I don’t think I usually do, but I’m pleading guilty just now. I had intended to spend most of this week blogging about Nashville, Tennessee, America’s “Music City,” which I spent last week visiting… and I will get to that tomorrow, because I have some incredibly motivational and inspiring [...]
Taking Care of Our Own: Blogging for Lori
Posted in Creative Communities, tagged Lori Hall Steele on September 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Please read this post. You can help. I actually don’t know Lori Hall Steele. I’d never even heard her name, even though she’s a fellow writer, a member of one of the national writer’s organizations I belong to, and the author of more than 3,000 articles. (She wrote a wonderful story for the Washington Post about a mother’s desire to shield [...]
Money Ups and Downs
Posted in Business Issues, Freelancing, tagged freelancing and cash flow on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Probably one of the hardest parts of the transition from the company life to the self-employed life is that little business of no paycheck. Sure, we’ve all been known to complain about the paychecks we’ve had (the last regular check I had was more than 18 years ago, but I still remember feeling that it could have been [...]
Fair Use
Posted in Business Issues, Copyrights and Contracts, tagged Fair Use, US Copyright Act on September 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Internet has turned Copyright on its ear. Our U.S. Copyright Act is not the most creator-friendly legislation one could imagine. While big companies — the ones that buy up the rights to popular songs and cartoon characters — have been able to use it very effectively, the protections it offers small-scale individual creators is [...]
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