January 8, 2015 / Maisie Smith
“I really want to shake things up.” Best seven words ever. When a client says this phrase, it means that I get to roll up my sleeves, break into my drawer full of metaphorical finger paints and start slinging some gnarly shit up onto the blank slate in front of me. I call it creative […]
read full articleDecember 18, 2014 / Maisie Smith
Getting chased down a driveway by a pack of frenzied dogs five days before Christmas was not part of the plan. It should have been an easy drop… set the cookies on the doorstep, ring the bell and run like hell. We had spent the entire day in the kitchen decorating goodies. It was the […]
read full articleDecember 4, 2014 / Maisie Smith
Dear Josie, I can’t sleep. Our last conversation, the one about the negative review, keeps clinking around in my pinball machine brain. So here I am, writing this to you at 2:45 a.m. Haters. You just got your first. Congratulations! There’s a quote I have at my desk that reads “There is nothing harder than […]
read full articleNovember 20, 2014 / Maisie Smith
“Keep.” “Keep.” “Keep.” I was rifling through the kitchen pantry, classifying an overwhelming collection of non-perishables into one of two categories. “Hmmmmm. Pickled beets.” Slight pause. “Give.” And I placed the can on the dining room table. Spaghetti-o’s that were just a tad (3 months) past the expiration date. “Give.” A bottle of hot sauce […]
read full articleNovember 6, 2014 / Maisie Smith
I’ve been listening to the soundtrack from ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ for a solid week. On repeat. Sweeping, epic music has a way of getting me dialed into my work. I’ll write for a bit and then inevitably get caught up in thinking about Frodo’s quest… not so much about the perils along the […]
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