Your Blog, Even Better: Take a blogging class with me
Here’s something you might not know about me. I currently have five blogs. 1. This one. 2. A blog for my children’s book. 3. A blog for my Social Dentist empire. 4. A blog for our family business 5. A...
View ArticleOregon Truffle Festival on Vine
I got on Vine this week while at the Oregon Truffle Festival. Just so many little scenes I felt like pictures just wouldn’t do them justice. The Oregon Truffle Festival, now in its 11th year, is an...
View ArticleThe real reason your essay isn’t ready yet
A couple of months ago I learned that an essay I had been sending out for over a decade was going to be published in Good Housekeeping. The payment I would receive for it would be the largest single...
View ArticleDaring greatly on a small project: My Tessalation! Kickstarter just launched
Have you ever struggled to get a creative project out in the world? Have you ever been drawn in five directions and not known where to put your creative energies? This is the place I found myself in...
View ArticleThis chair might be the worst household decision I have ever made
If you’re anything like me, you see an ad for a funeral parlor estate sale and say: SCORE! But there is so much wrong with taking dead weight home with you, in furniture or otherwise. So bear with me...
View ArticleWhat the Perfumed Plume awards have to tell us about scent
I won a fragrance writing award! Well, kind of. Actually, this blog won an honorable mention in the first-ever Perfumed Plume fragrance journalism awards. The blog post called out as a “top entry” in...
View ArticleOLO: Heather Sielaff’s snapshots in a bottle
Every scent obsessive has a gateway scent, the one that started it all for them. For me, it was OLO’s Dafne — a scent that found me in the dead of winter, much like the daphne bloom itself — and...
View ArticleThe Scent in Literature Project will make your writing stink
A couple of years ago I started collecting examples of great scent writing — not writing ABOUT scent, per se, but writing that incorporates scent in a way that works well within the context. Scent...
View ArticleMy essay in Publishers Weekly about Scent in Literature
I have an essay in Publishers Weekly this week about how writers might go about learning how to incorporate scent details in their writing. As you can imagine, stinky writing is a topic I feel really...
View ArticleI’ve moved! Please follow my new adventures in creative wayfinding.
Thank you for being a reader! All good things come to an end, however, and the time for this site has passed. I have been working for the past year to collect all of my ideas and activities into one...
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