Real Artists Have Day Jobs: (And Other Awesome Things They Don't Teach You in School)

I’m Not Perfect, You’re Not Perfect, Let’s Work on It While Drinking Iced Tea and/or Bourbon.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

a book by the artist and author SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy)

Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics series.

“From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg is the best!”

Yes Please by Amy Poehler; Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay; Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham; Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block; Science . . . for Her! by Megan Amram;

To me, the most authentic insight comes from those who acknowledge their own shortcomings and readily admit they are still working on improving themselves each and every day.

poems by Rumi, a new favorite book called Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn, When Things Fall Apart by the Buddhist nun Pema Chodron,