
Artist. Designer. TEDx speaker. Optimist. Obliger. ENFP. Seven. Likes to help. Wants to be your friend. Hates cilantro. Loves french fries. #blacklivesmatter
Charlotte, NC
Joined July 2007
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Attention a$$hole drivers – pissing off the person driving in front of you on a two-lane road with no shoulder will not yield the results you hope it will
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Made up of well-known local musicians and artists like Gina Stewart, Brenda Gambill and Laurie Smithwick (@UpsideUp), newly formed band Channeling Granny is marking #WomensHistoryMonth with a series of @CharlotteVisart shows that mix literature and music. qcnerve.com/channeling-grann…
This is brilliant advice
"The simplest way to clarify your thinking is to write a full page about whatever you are dealing with and then delete everything except the 1-2 sentences that explain it best."
-@JamesClear
You’re telling me not everybody tested out different ways to write different letters and numbers when they were a kid?
Thanks @TMFanSupport for allowing me to transfer the tickets I purchased for my daughter who lives in another town, but not the parking pass #sarcasm
Imagination > Resolutions. Pause before you go through the portal today open.substack.com/pub/laurie…
Tfw you screw on a lid and it goes on wonky so you unscrew it just a little and it audibly clicks into place? I hope you have that kind of day.
The more working artists a city has the more world class that city is. Grateful to @BlumenthalArts, @AtriumHealth and other organizations who understand this and build it into their plans
“The @BlumenthalArts is waking the world up to the amazing art talent and community that exists in #Charlotte!”
~@UpsideUp
Art is about joy, discovery and healing. 🎨🎭🖼️👩🎨🧑🎤
Shoutout to the car that just drove by my house absolutely BLASTING Joni Mitchell 🔊 Heroic Monday morning work 🫡
Guy in line with me at CVS heading home with a Baby Ruth to do a taste test bc his wife says it has the same ingredients as Snickers and I’ve never been so invested in a stranger’s important work
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"I don't feel any satisfaction. I feel great, profound sadness that we have a former president who's been indicted on so many charges..."
-- Hillary Clinton, just now w/ Maddow
Laurie 🖤 Smithwick retweeted
You realize we’re here now because there was, “just something about,” this eminently qualified and razor-sharp woman which made a bunch of dude-bros uncomfortable.







