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Considering a Communications Career? 10 Questions to Ask Yourself

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change quote by Stephen Hawking via catherinehamrick.com chamrickwriter with image of Milky Way

A student in communications asked the following question: What strategy would you recommend for someone trying to break into the communications industry? Communications is a broad field, so I certainly do not have all the answers. Instead, I suggested thinking through key questions. 1. Does “service” underscore your attitude? Communications […]

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Hiroshima: 75 years after

After blue-white flashes seared the living into shades, after black rain unquenched mouths begging the sky, ginkgo fossils shine in temple gardens, bitter-sweet. In a split second on August 6, 1945, up to 140,000 souls disappeared in the Hiroshima atomic blast. Yet new buds emerged from six ginkgo trees within one mile from the bomb […]

Beyond Fear: Taking the Leap

Part of being a creative writer is facing rejection and waking up the next day to try again. The first piece I wrote as a copywriter required seven rewrites. That taught me real fast that writing on the job is business; it’s not personal. It’s about the message and audience, not me. However, sometimes hearing […]

Sunrise Words for My Teacher

In stillness at sunrise, I slide bloodstone beads between my fingers, counting nothing—my hands, invisible to words shut out my mouth and eyes, and I peer into your dark eye where mystics whispered, straining to hear the secrets you buried there when it was simple to fall awake— I catch just a glimpse and drop […]