One of my main takeaways from Netflix’s Salt Fat Acid Heat, based on the book of the same name by Samin Nosrat, is that when you dump salt into your pasta water, your pasta tastes great.

Indeed, pretty much everything needs to be salted more than I thought, at every stage of preparation. Salt makes meat more tender, strengthens dough, and enhances flavor.

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Like most of us, I don’t like spoilers.

I don’t even like to read the blurb on the back of a book, if I can avoid it. I don’t want to watch the movie trailer.

I want to dive into a world and experience it on its own terms. I want to enjoy the gradual unspooling of the narrative.

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Back when I first started teaching music lessons in Atlanta, I was a little self-conscious about my circumstances.

I lived in a small, run-down apartment with no central air conditioning and a bad parking situation. Piano lessons, I taught in the bedroom, and guitar lessons were in the living room.

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When I started this blog, I thought I’d be talking to the parents of my students.

Instead, it’s turned out to be a lot of entrepreneurs and creatives. And that led me to start coaching and consulting with said entrepreneurs and creatives, which has become a career that I’m really enjoying.

But I’ve resisted going all in on gearing my topics exclusively to the small business owners who might be prospective clients.

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TThe Internet has made it possible to voyeuristically peer into the virtual shop windows of businesses.

Like insecure teenagers, it's all too easy to get our composure rattled by someone else's polished and perfected web presence.

Wandering around in search of inspiration too often results in demoralization instead. Of course, we already know that however attractive and successful a person may seem, that is only part of the story. They have failures and frustrations just like we do.

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