I sat down to chat with my friend Ezra Chasser, social media maestro and president of Sore Thumb Marketing, about how small businesses can boost their brand and build their business using social media. Ezra has a new book  out, Level The Playing Field: A Social Media...

How do you balance the most unprofitable of arts with making a living?

How lucky we are

That you can’t sell

A poem, that it has

No value. Might

As well

Give it away.

That poem you love,

That saved your life,

Wasn’t it given to you?

That poem is from Greg Orr’s Concerning the...

Freelancing: at its best, it's living by your own rhythm, savoring your non-Keurig coffee and laughing as all the suits march by.  At its worst, it's getting out of bed at the crack of 10:30, reading BuzzFeed for two hours, catching up on all those emails and then hav...