I am sitting under a grand Ash tree in my backyard as the sun sets on a warm summer night. And I’m wondering, how do I paint this? How do you capture this feeling and express it and share [...]
Leadership usually belongs to the least anxious presence in the room. It doesn’t matter who is the leader by title or position, the leadership falls to the least anxious in the room. The [...]
I don’t know what season of life you’re in but I find myself in the season of life called chase, wipe and play (aka: raising a toddler.) The chase part is essentially about following [...]
I recently commissioned a piece of art from a local artist and friend for my kitchen. After a bit of conversation we landed on this phrase for the painting (coined by Penzy,) “Love people, [...]
How can you tell if you want to hire someone onto your team? For me, increasingly it has to do with a person’s openness to being teachable. I love being around people who are open to [...]
I am reading the book Quiet, by Susan Cain right now and I highly recommend it to you. I especially recommend it if you are an introvert, or if you are married to one, or raising one, or in [...]
Our household is currently made up of four adults and a toddler and most of us are pretty into the TV show, The Voice. The first thing I love about the show is people daring greatly to put [...]
Everybody knows that when it comes to our work, the people we work with make all the difference in how we feel about our jobs. One of the best things about Sipping n’ Painting is the [...]
