Category Archives: Featured

Why Food Makes Me Cry

This morning I watched Jamie Oliver’s TED Talk from the Long Beach TED conference.  When I watch a TED Talk, I have my notebook out, pen in hand.  I take notes – all the time now.
In the first thirty seconds I was already scribbling down a quote that pulled at me.
“I profoundly believe that the [...]

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Find Me On Untemplater

My first guest post is up on Untemplater, a collaborative blog founded by Jun Loayza, Adam Baker, Cody McKibben,Monica O’Brien, Carlos Miceli, and Andrew Norcross, with many more writers in the Gen-Y movement.
Check out my post here: How to Get Lucky… Creatively.
Welcome to Drop of Change for all of the readers from Untemplater.
Drop of Change is a blog about creating, [...]

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Good Ideas are Rainbows

Fleeting, spectacular, and unattainable.
Right?
Wrong. Good ideas are more like dirt than rainbows.
You can’t grow or build anything with rainbows; yet dirt, when properly worked can yield crops, gardens, houses, cities.
Are your good ideas like rainbows?
If so, it’s more than likely that whenever you have one, you stand back in awe, maybe you take a [...]

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Site Update, Purpose Update

If you haven’t been back recently, or are reading this in an RSS reader (click here for the real version), I made a major site redesign recently.
I was using Cody McKibben’s great Thrilling Theme with some modifications, however, the theme felt constricting despite it’s exceptional options.  It’s been replaced with the Headway Theme (affiliate link) and a [...]

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How To Connect You To Me

Connect with Carl & and the Drop of Change Community

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