The Story Economy Blog

Other girls spent their teen years and young twenties fantasizing about their wedding day. I fantasized about my future bookshelves, which would be floor-to-ceiling and wrap gracefully from room to room. I grew up in a house with overflowing…

I’ve never been away from this blog for so long! One week turned into two weeks, which turned into two months. And here we are. Sigh. It’s not that I feel guilty. Rather, I feel like I’m overflowing with things to say! I have a running list…

My neighborhood is one giant construction zone. All day long, dump trucks and concrete trucks cruise the neighborhood. There is an excavation vehicle on every corner and multiple lumber deliveries every day. If you sit quietly on any given morning, you…

In my first blog post of 2016, I talked about how I was getting quieter, with the express intent to work more. I put an intention out there to focus on landing some big content writing gigs. In my second blog post of 2016, I talked about how I…

[caption id="attachment_2492" align="alignright" width="375"] Photograph 057 by Ashley Schweitzer found on minimography.com[/caption] Between a long and noisy spring break (not a break for me), being wiped-out sick and then wiped-out sick again, and…