If the Dear Rich Staff was in your position, we’d probably give up on the $800.

Maybe we as artists and performers are undervalued. But we try to make it work financially, anyway, because it’s so much fun.

If you apply to a gallery, you’re basically applying for a job, and every gallery is going to be different.

Artists do not share secrets if they have a lead on something or they’ve found something works for them.

A website with your work on it can’t be the only way to carry your art career into the big time.

What Pomplamoose has helped me realize is that a different kind of musical career path can be cultivated.

How things have changed in four short years! So now, what do I do? Go back to waiting tables? Work in an office? Have a boss?!

It may feel awkward actually taking money from your fans. Get over it. This money helps you keep going. Every purchase is a vote to keep your music alive.

Boutique hotel on Bequia island in the Grenadines, southern tail of the Caribbean. Make mirrors. Make chandeliers. Of course, there must be negotiations.

Achieving your dream of [insert dream here] will most likely also include a day job. Or a night job. Or a day and a night job. Or any job you can find.

It’s rare when you get the time to just sit with your thoughts and do nothing else.

The most important part of any zinefest, for me at least, is the inspiration I feel when it is all said and done.

Every four years, in the early hours of a new or renewed mandate, I do find myself mysteriously yet resolutely standing at a personal crossroad again.

The hard part is the start-up phase, which is the phase that I’m in. I’m doing a bunch of work now that will hopefully pay off down the line.