It’s Friday! Yay! I just got an email from jet.com offering 20 of my readers free one year memberships. So what is JET? A mix between Costco and Amazon. They sold me when I heard that–I love both of those. I first met them when I attended the BlogHer Conference in New York last month. […]
Dating is my favorite topic to write about—I always have a lot of stories, thoughts, observances whirling in my mind about other things, but dating is the one issue that compels me enough to open a new document and write it out. It fascinates me. I think it’s because it’s something that I can’t just […]
I am so so so excited to announce the dates of the workshops that I will be teaching while in New York in the next couple of weeks. Cultivate NYC Calligraphy Styled Hand Lettering Wednesday, July 22nd 7pm to 10pm in Manhattan – tickets Saturday, July 25th 11am to 2pm in Brooklyn – tickets My […]
Last week, I was having a little jealousy towards my friend’s watermelon bicycle helmet. I thought I’d try to spruce up my helmet. I spray painted it navy blue and used acrylic paint to hand letter “bicycle” in different languages. I love how it turned out! I rode into the city last week to gather […]
(original artwork by Be A Heart Design) I’ve started a little thing on Instagram – Gratitude Tuesday. Gratitude has become my best medicine for anxiety. I use two main tactics when anxiety tries to creep in. 1) I have a discussion with the anxiety and tell it that “I don’t actually do anxiety any more.” My brother read […]
This quote is from the June 28th, 2015 reflection entitled, A Different Consciousness, written by Richard Rohr and sent out by the Center for Action and Contemplation. Hand lettered by Erica. I currently cannot get enough of Richard Rohr. I discovered him over a year ago when my parish in Brooklyn (if you live there, you have […]
Last month I was in Phoenix after a family vacation to Mexico. Meredith Amadee and I were teaming together for a project for Leah Darrow (which will be released next week). These days, I don’t really go anywhere without my overalls so I asked her if we could get a couple of shots of them […]
This is absolutely amazing. I just found out that there exists a child care program in the same place as an elderly home. What?! How am I just finding out about this now. Evan Briggs is producing a film about it. It’s called Present Perfect. They are crowdfunding over on Kickstarter to be able to […]
A few weeks ago, I attended a TEDx women’s conference. I had the privilege to participate in Jill Valle’s I Am A Woman Who project. The website says that, I AM A WOMAN WHO uses portrait photography and confessional writing to explore the threads that connect women to other women in the world, no matter what their […]
A couple of months ago, I discovered the podcast, On Being (quite late to the game). On the site it says, On Being opens up the animating questions at the center of human life: What does it mean to be human, and how do we want to live? We explore these questions in their richness […]
Photo by Marylouise McGraw I am honored to be published, again, over on I Believe in Love where I talk about one of the best lessons I’ve had this year on the subject of dating. And what I didn’t say there is that it translates to all parts of my life–not getting a job […]
A couple of weeks ago, my best gal pal asked me to go on an overnight adventure. She wouldn’t tell me to where, but of course I said sure. Surprises are a huge part of Marylouise’s love language. I struggle with them because I love to plan ahead and know where I’ll be and what […]
