The Writing and Photography of Lisa Mikulski

Having your dream shouldn’t be hard

Lisa — Tue, 21 May 2013 05:29:30 +0000

Yesterday morning, I read a friend’s social media status which said something along the lines of “Photography is like living the life you dream, it’s never easy but it’s achievable.” A second friend remarked, “Things worth having are never easy”. This got me to thinking … Shouldn’t it should be easy? When you are on [...]

Struggles, Stereotypes, and Courage

Lisa — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:13:53 +0000

It is through our greatest struggles that we learn our greatest truths. I’m not talking about the day to day trials such as our TV is broken, our public buses are too dirty, or that we simply had a bad day. The struggles I’m referring to are the real hard-core life challenges. Sickness. Losing your [...]

Culture Shock Sweden

Lisa — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:29:49 +0000

Oh hell no! Not me. But yes, it did happen to me and it was dark and ugly and intense. I never expected to experience culture shock in Sweden. After all, I had visited the country three times and because of the relationship with my guy, I considered myself fairly well educated about the culture, [...]

Creating an International CV/Resume

Lisa — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:23:30 +0000

For the last few days, I have been working on what I call “My Life Files”. Part of this includes my international CV/resume, a business plan, geographic outreach projections, marketing strategy and materials, and a few other little items. Because I work in the arts, these documents are structured toward a creative and cultural community. [...]

The Re-Design

Lisa — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:28:02 +0000

Welcome to the newly designed and updated blog and portfolio for LisaMikulski.com. After days of ripping apart the old design and replacing it with something fresh, here we are, ready to kickass in 2013. I thought long and hard about re-establishing this blog and with all the recent privacy issues surrounding some social media sites, [...]

Updating and redesigning

Lisa — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:52:48 +0000

Greetings All, 2013 is the year! Please bare with me as I update and redesign this blog starting today. So, if you happen upon this site and see some things amiss, keep in mind that I’ll be working day and night for the next 5-7 days making this site bigger and better. For those of [...]

Preparing your images for publication

Lisa — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:32:47 +0000

Artists and galleries, you’ve been working hard. And one day a writer is going to call you. That writer might be someone like me. Someone calling to interview you for a feature article in a newspaper or magazine. That writer will schedule an interview to talk about your art and will take the next day [...]

Beginning Anew

Lisa — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:38:48 +0000

How does one start their life over again? I have no idea. I guess I’ll start by continuing to find a way to breathe. By getting out of bed every morning and putting one foot in front of the other. By caring for myself with bubble baths and kitten kisses and hopefully one day all [...]

philosophy’s amazing grace

Lisa — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:46:46 +0000

I’m a sucker for packaging. I can’t help it. One of my favorite fragances is philosophy’s amazing grace. Besides being a lovely scent, philosophy also included the following text on it’s package. I remember it whenever I wear amazing grace. I want to share philosophy’s philosophy with you: “how you climb up the mountain is [...]

How Photography Saved My Life

Lisa — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:40:55 +0000

My G+ profile description reads: Writer. Photography saved my life. The photography statement sounds rather dramatic doesn’t it? Despite the supposed histrionics, I believe the statement to be quite true and when photographer Helen Sotiriadis suggested I write a post about it, how could I say no? As is usually the case with big profound [...]