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“Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.” -Steven Covey Synergy has been a hot buzz word in the Williams household since I read “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” a few months ago. If I’m being honest, sometimes the thing my husband and I have most in common is our strong wills, so it’s taken us a beat to learn how to get past ego and miscommunication...

“I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.” -Bob Dylan If you follow my Instagram, you may have seen the recent mixture of commissions and personal experiments going on in the studio. I’m not new to making art, but I am new to branding myself as an artist. Most of the greats have a beautifully distinct style because that’s a great artistic goal. However, my specialty seems to be variety, if that’s a thing. Like Mr. Dylan, I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and just a...

I am officially old enough to be President of the United States (though qualified in no other way 🙃). In honor of this milestone, I put my overthinking to use and made this list of 35 random thoughts: Life isn’t black and white, but it is beautifully complicated. Embrace the uncertainty. When I was young, I was considered Generation Y. It wasn’t until recently I learned I fall in the Millennial category, which is apparently another name for Y. I’m also on the cusp of Gen X but fail to realize how any of it means anything. Aren’t these kinds of...

Everyone who participates in social media has a different relationship with it. Games, groups, soapbox rants, prayer requests, memes and/or family photo sharing are just a few ways people relate online. Earlier this year, I gave up social media for 40 days. A complicated relationship we had, I bordered on addiction to it and didn’t like the articles I read about what it was doing to my brain. My very first day away, the third deadliest school shooting in U.S. history happened. I didn’t find out from someone’s comment attached to a link, how I regularly received news. Instead, when...