Written September 17, 2013 When my great-niece Annie was just six months old, her parents asked me to create a piece of art for her. They wanted something that would hang in her bedroom…

I’m an organizer, a planner, a whittle-through-the-muck-to-find-the-bottom-line kind of person. In essence, I’m a summarizer. Most of my conversations end with, “OK, in summary…” with the main outcomes highlighted and the action points delegated.…

Written July 5, 2013 This week I touched just a bit on the surface of change. I offered a hint of how I think about things with the treatise on social change based loosely…

Written August 20, 2013 A month and a half ago my laptop was run over by our minivan. It was a short series of missteps leading to a crunch that rendered me instantly untethered…

Written June 28, 2013 It’s been a week of gratitude. Rather, it’s been a couple of months of gratitude. As I embarked on creating the piece of artwork for my sister and brother-in-law, I…

When I was a kid, I wanted a dog. Plain and simple. What kid doesn’t, right? Unfortunately for me, my dad believed that dogs only belonged on farms or in the country, outside where…

Written May 24, 2013 I started this week with the quest for maintaining balance as I move more fully into the world with my creative career. My initial blog, Insights on Balance, helped me…

Written by Beverly Rieger I am a musician.  Over the last 7 years I have created and published almost 50 albums of music in CD form, and another series of albums and individual pieces…

Written May 20, 2013 There’s always a lot of talk about maintaining balance in life, that is, ensuring that things are settled and even within oneself. In my world, I feel most balanced when…

Written May 16, 2013 My proposition to all of you this week was to recognize the beauty in all forms of connecting, specifically social media forms and live-and-in-person forms, and focus on doing only…