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.

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Cheap Valentine's Day Date Ideas That Are Actually Fun
Frances Eugenia Frances Eugenia

Cheap Valentine's Day Date Ideas That Are Actually Fun

Love isn’t about grand gestures and expensive things. Love is doing the dishes without being asked, shoveling the drive way, and somehow making tedious every day tasks fun because you are in it together. To this day my favorite date of all time was spending the day driving around South Florida in our beat up 1991 Caprice getting free “Stolen Base” Taco Bell tacos, making jokes and dreaming about the future. With that said here are some thoughtful ideas on how to spend Valentine’s Day loving instead of spending.

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