Laura Cassidy
How and where do you find that inspiration throughout your day, and  what has that inspiration compelled you to do in your life? It’s more like what doesn’t inspire me, but mostly it comes down to books. I keep piles of books everywhere—art
What challenges have you met in chasing inspiration? Choosing one path. Knowing which direction to take. Wanting someone to tell me the answer but knowing that I’m the only one who knows. Getting things out of my notebooks and laptop and into th
What’s a fantastic piece of advice you have been given in your life,  and who gave it to you? My husband says “Make your weakness your strength” and although he’s sometimes being cynical or sarcastic, sometimes he means it. It’s really a pr
  Who do you have a girl crush on? I always have a girl crush, typically several. Often the woman is older—like, gray haired and richly experienced. A lot of times the woman is a mother. I do get pretty intensely involved with women I’ll neve
Who/what is your spirit animal? It’s probably a giant cliche, but Joan Didion. Homegirl covered politics and broke down complicated world issues while editing at Vogue and writing fiction. And she is so perfectly inside and outside of herself at
Tell me something pretty. A quote, a lyric, whatever it is that  inspires you. "Say yes when no one asked." (Lao proverb) I saw colors when I came across that, because it seems a twin to "Listen when no one is talking," which is something t
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