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I loved this pep talk from Kid President. Yes, take the road that leads to awesome.

I’ve been writing music for over a decade now. Rock songs, folk songs, fast songs, slow songs. The only common thread has been that I’ve tried to write what I know. Making records and making music with people is something that it seems like I’ve always just done, and while it’s a performance and I want people to connect, in many ways it’s something I’ve always done for myself. Create something you love and hopefully

Some things, some goals, some ideas to attempt and accomplish throughout 2012 Business Build an iPhone App Learn to Program in Ruby Become a better Amateur Photographer Projects Finish the Boat Grow the Utica Firefly project even bigger Make a Rock N Roll Record Visit the West Coast Grow a Better Garden Cut Down the Dead Tree in the Back Yard Dance the Meringue Health Get back to Boot Camp Run a Marathon Hike 5 ADK H

This is true for so many things. Copying and imitating helps you find your own voice, your own look, your own style…. “Copy out things that you really love. Any book. Put the quotation marks around it, put the date that you’re doing the copying out, and then copy it out. You’ll find that you just soak into that prose, and you’ll find that the comma means something, that it’s there for a reason, and that that ad

For anyone that struggles with being creative on a deadline – this is for you. Great experiment.

Yesterday I was listening to the Diane Rehm program, as I often do – and really got into her interview with Suzanne Marrs who had written a book covering the lengthy correspondence between Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty and her New Yorker editor and fellow writer William Maxwell. For more than 50 years, they corresponded about work and family, likes and dislikes, griefs, joys, moments of dispair and

I’ve been a big fan of the photoblogs that Ree (Pioneer Woman), Kathleen Connally (A Walk Through Durham Township), Amanda Pair and the Boston Globe have been running for a long time now. Other friends like Bernie at Medraw and Erin’s Photo 365 project have been trying to do a photo (or sketch) every day and posting it online. And I’ve been fascinated with mobile apps like Instagram that let you take, edit and share

When I gave a talk about Bootstrapping in the Mohawk Valley to the MV Young Professionals group last month, one of the points I tried to drive home was that you need to surround yourself with people that make things…and that you should make something too. Whether those things are businesses, films, music, art, pieces or writing -whatever- I think it’s really important, no matter where you live. They will