Category: The Swiss Family Carlson
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A Fairy Tale Life
“Why can’t my life be a fairy tale?” It’s the refrain of every heroine in every romance novel and movie. Or—why limit ourselves?—it’s in every novel on the shelf and movie streaming through the interwebs. What they mean is, “I want to skip to the Happily Ever After.” They want to wake up/have their life…
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Creativity Returns
Last time we spoke, I was in a bit of a spiral. Part of that was because it was February. Part of it was the specific ways the world is fracturing under our feet. The world hasn’t gotten better. It’s still fracturing and things are still awful. (Who shares classified military information in an unsecured…
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Do Something
It’s easy to become immobilized when you have a buzz saw chopping through the very foundation of your country. The desire to doomscroll–to stayed glued to social media and other news sites so you can watch the horror in real time–to see if anything is changing for the better, or if the buzz saw is…
Mindy Carlson 