Lockdowns Destroyed Our Human Energy Exchange Economy and I Want it Back

My husband and I went to a comedy club with friends a few weeks ago. I was afraid to go - would the comedians be funny? Or would we be sitting...

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Creating Characters for Epic The Movie: Why Perfection is Overrated (Even in Hollywood!)

One of the more fun and surprising things about blogging is getting invited to swag-erific events. Not very many - Wild Beauty isn't up there in the numbers, nor...

Do Facial Expressions Rule Emotions? My One-Woman Experiment in the Field, Plus How Botox Could Help Depression

How do our faces convey emotion? Conventional thinking tells us that we smile because something made us happy, or we frown because we're annoyed - that our faces move...

Gerald DeCock: Magic and Muses

Gerald DeCock travels between creative worlds: hairstylist, painter, and now collaborator on two photography projects. A hairstylist by trade, his effortless-looking work appears regularly in photographs by Bruce Weber...

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