Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Category: creativity

  • The auspicious beginning

    Bring it on! In her book on making changes, behavioral economist Katy Milkman calls it the fresh start effect. Everybody else calls it New Year’s resolutions. I love them and I do them, and sometimes they do me proud. Buying and reading Milkman’s book “How to Change” gave me a suite of tools to help…

  • One new thing

    When my good friend Stephanie Barrow throws down a challenge, I can’t help but take it up. OK, Steph. This year I’m taking the watercolor plunge, trying something new to keep on building those new neural pathways for a healthy brain. Got me some Inktense watercolor pencils, a cool little water brush thingie, a book…

  • Need inspiration?

    Rule of life: Always have friends that inspire you to be a better person. Meet my dear friend Stephanie Barrow. An artist and designer, not to mention a gardener with a magical touch (Her personal slogan: Art and gardens everywhere!) she takes a kind of fearless approach to life, to trying new things, to embrace…