It was the summer before my sophomore year of high school. My parents had just learned that the company that my dad worked for was transferring him. Uprooting us from our charming small-town Minnesota life :: packing up our possessions into stale cardboard boxes and a forest’s worth of packing paper. Men I had never...
If your favorite color could talk, what would it say about you? More than you think! The Dewey Color System is one of the most accurate non-language, color-based career tests available. Instead of questions, the method uses color preferences to show occupational interests. All in sixty seconds. (No joke.) Even CEO’s across the nation are...
Wednesdays are c-r-a-z-y at our house. Preschool, storytime, gymnastics, maybe a workout and some lunch if there’s time. No other day seems as packed as this one every. single. week. Today we took a few extra minutes after storytime to choose a few new books for our evening reading. And we came across this gem…...
On the advice of a friend/trusted business colleague, I took a risk recently–a risk that I knew in my heart wasn’t really a gamble in terms of my business and where it will lead, but a leap of faith deep within to see myself, my art and my business through a new light. While I’m...
I’d love to hear your thoughts, your discoveries and inspirations after reading this. If you don’t want to publicly share, email me at hello {at} parallel39design {dot} com. – CM • • • • • 23. Stand on someone’s shoulders. You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And...
Over the past several weeks, I have been thinking and developing a manifesto and vision to guide the evolution of Parallel 39 and Cathy Mores Photography over the next months and years. I’m excited by this, as it’s led me to the wisdom of two fantastic business coaches (who I’ll introduce soon! ) and the...
This is a post that I’ve debated hitting the “publish” button on because it’s becoming a hot topic among the design community, both for and against. But I feel that it’s only fair to share and voice an opinion, as such—I feel there’s a strong argument to be made, because of the passion I have...
