Notes From the Studio
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Notes From the Studio *
Writing on communication, design, culture, public-facing work, and the way organizations explain themselves.
This archive includes studio notes, public communication essays, design commentary, civic observations, and earlier editorial work from my time producing entertainment content for the Gaylord Herald Times’ Extra section.
Some pieces are practical. Some are critical. Some come from client work, municipal work, publishing, events, arts coverage, or the experience of making public-facing material on deadline.
The through-line is the same: how information is shaped, how people receive it, and what happens when the work has to be useful beyond the moment it is published.
The Farm Haus gets haunted
When you move into a historic home, you expect the house to creak and groan. You anticipate the wind to whip around it in a certain creepy way. So when we first settled into the house we never really thought anything of the squeaks and moans we heard.