Jack Pordea Dec 14, 2020 1 min Resolving the Ethical Tension Between Entrepreneurship and Artistry in the Music Industry Hi, my name is Jack Pordea! I’m a student at the University of Missouri St. Louis and an aspiring musician. For the past couple years I h...
Shelly Snow Pordea Dec 11, 2020 3 min Image Isn't Everything A few weeks ago, I got pretty vulnerable when I put a portion of my story out into the world. The vulnerability hangover, a Brené Brown t...
Shelly Snow Pordea Oct 27, 2020 5 min American Childhood: breaking the code of silence **This post contains discussion of child sexual abuse and religious trauma** All-American Girl As I leaned my head full of baby-soft hair...
Shelly Snow Pordea Oct 2, 2020 4 min Grammar Matters, Writer Friend! I probably know what you're thinking. You have that one friend who you've dubbed Grammar Queen, and you move on throughout life without a...
Shelly Snow Pordea Sep 25, 2020 2 min Playful Makes Perfect I recently heard an interview with Keith Urban on Dax Shepherd's podcast where Urban talks about his beginner's mindset approach to creat...
Shelly Snow Pordea Aug 4, 2020 2 min I used to think our stories are what define us. I've been working on writing projects both big and small, fun and personal, professional and playful. (And various, delightful combinatio...
Shelly Snow Pordea May 5, 2020 2 min A Big, Distant Hug For You! Have you been missing things like hugging your friends? Yeah, me too. And even though in my home state of Missouri, they are loosening th...
Shelly Snow Pordea Apr 1, 2020 1 min A Creative Invitation! Well, friends, it's been quite a ride–NO JOKE! I had no idea how timely the March journal would be for me over the past month. I hope it w...
Shelly Snow Pordea Mar 28, 2020 2 min Lessons Of The Seasons We’re coming to the end of our 31-day challenge, and everything in our world has changed. No matter where we find ourselves on the planet...
Shelly Snow Pordea Mar 23, 2020 2 min The Colorful World We Live In In this next section of our creativity journal, we'll be talking about color. Perhaps things seem pretty grey right now to us all, and we...