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There is beauty in simplicity.

I see simplicity as taking away the obvious (decoration) and adding the meaningful. This holds true while working on design projects just as much as in my daily life.

Simplification is not easy nor something that comes natu...

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The number one thing I learned over the past year is to be still.

This is no easy task.

I recently wrote an article for Proto.io (it still has yet to be published) on apps to help entrepreneurs focus. There are apps with ten minute guided meditation...

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Bob Dylan is a gifted storyteller.

I remember the first time I heard the album Desire. I was on a road trip in 1998 with two close friends driving along the Oregon coast. Matt popped Desire into the tape deck of his pickup truck and we all sat back and...

Pena Palace: Sintra, Portugal. 

Lisbon. The city of light. The city of hills. A truly magical place that made a beautiful lifelong impression on me.

I was lucky enough to have received a media pass to attend the giant technology conference, the Web Summit, in early Novem...

It has been a while since I last posted! I have been lucky enough to have taken on a lot of freelance work over the past few months, which is a good thing. However, I thought I would take a few minutes to share a bit about one of my favorite parts of my life at the mom...

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I was reluctant to write this post in fear of being cast as a whimsical glittery unicorn loving lady, which I am definitely not, at least most of the time. Truth to be told, though, as I started feeling a slight shift in my life I started seeing rainbow...

I have had some of the most remarkable and unremarkable few days over the past two weeks. I spent them for the most part totally alone, besides the company of my two amazing non-human companions Mazzy Star and Elsa.

I had time to finally focus on me which doesn’t happen...

The eclectic nature of my own studies might look a little “messy” from the outside, but I know it made me a better designer, problem solver and coder. While the push for college bound students to major in fields within STEM is incredibly important, especially for young...