As creative people we can build up our resilience to avoid being thrown off track by criticism—or flattery.

If I were one of my own small business clients, am I doing the things I would advise a client to do?

It’s a reckoning of sorts between the types of work I knew I should be doing, vs what I was actually doing, in terms of rebooting freelance work and career.

I can execute my WHOLE social media plan (not including blogging) in about four hours per week and we have a really decent growth on all platforms.

“I know that’s crazy, ” I said. And he said I must go for crazy. Keep crazy ideas at the top because that is a force that will carry me along in my career.

It was the first time I can remember feeling so much joy creating, without attachment to the finished product. But soon that attachment grew.

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Working with awesome contributors like these is why I started Pyragraph in the first place, so revisiting them fills me with love.

It did feel kind of insane to continue pushing a start-up forward from a room in a pediatric bone marrow transplant unit.

Eva! OK sure, there are some great pieces on your list of top-ten Pyragraph posts. But you’ve overlooked some of my bestest favorites!

Thank you Danielle Vincent for helping me see my to-do list not as a completely overwhelming horror show, but more as a tidy (and ever-expanding) triad.

For those of you who like things that are made well, made locally, and last a long time, Rebecca’s company Queen Bee is something of a Mecca.

As far as best practices, nothing is more important than building personal, meaningful and sincere relationships with people in the industry. It really takes a village to make a designer successful.

I had been thinking about opening a gallery in my house for some time, and the economic crash just hurried the event.

The Tan’s installation, The Manger, provided the perfect backdrop for our family’s holiday portrait, a fitting representation of our upside-down year.

I tend to find articles about diet and exercise incredibly boring, so I thought I’d offer my tips along with some advice I found in Jayne’s Almanac 1937.