Take the rules of professionalism and apply them to your personal relationships. — “I wish he’d give me half the attention he gives his job, that’s all I want.” “They’re ready to drop everything at moment’s notice for a work meeting but if there’s a chore that needs to be done around the house, there’s always excuses.” “By the time they’re done with…

A poem — a whispering part of me i tried to delete speaks in the wind. she speaks in prayers of poetry she shimmers comes and goes and perfumes my being with her presence. softness is her essence. she is ethereal neither here nor there but deeply felt when she takes hold like breath in thirsty lungs she is enchantment…

Asking yourself empowering questions — Thank you to my wonderful friend Tree Langdon for pulling this thought-provoking prompt straight from her brain caverns. Tree asks us to ask ourselves empowering questions about what it means to be human and so much more. The past year I’ve thought a lot about my life and what it…

Unless you do this afterward — Many of us have been there — the exclusive party or networking event where we are surrounded by people significantly cooler and more influential than ourselves. …

Sifting the Truth from World Zero, the Imagined, and the Mediated — Imagine a fantasy realm where nobody is content to live a single life at a time. Everybody is conscious of multiple worlds that are like twisted skeins of truth, a roiling rope of realities. What kind of planet would you use as a setting? I would use Earth, because we…

Free Verse — Have I lost my voice, or am I just beginning to truly listen to it as it was meant to be heard — as unobtrusively as possible, almost as if it were merely the breeze laying its hands upon the grave? Silence passes through and these measures of my soul are blank…

Fifty Rules To Live By I’m Spyder Darling. In my 60 years of walking the Earth I’ve been some places, done some things and learned a few lessons. Some more serious than others. Such as… It doesn’t have to be super perfect. In most cases regular perfect is just fine. …

Becoming a better human through reading — The more you read the more you become cultured. That is true because you expose yourself to different ideas. But being cultured is not limited to the mind, reading can also teach you how to become a better human holistically. One with good manners. …

Laird got sucked into a portal and found himself in a land of misfortune — a dirty, desolate place where he never felt safe, always on the verge of being chased or hunted down by one greedy fiend or another. Laird had no idea what to do — he was…