Serving as a base on which to build ideas and artifacts, some Blank Canvas Living posts (while each stand alone) also carry a linear story thread that can be read by clicking through the links below…
The ‘All you need to know’ shortcut synopsis:
The author’s character begins consulting for Blank Canvas Living, a life coaching firm that specializes in counselling its clients using creative living strategies: exercises in engagement, strategic storying,  sense scrolling, and solution artifact/system design. These techniques use guided creative thinking and neuroplasticity to loosen disruptive brain associations and shift personal paradigms.

CHAPTER FIVE…
Post 1: Under the muumuu – A woman and her addictions exposed
Post 2: A new language for the treatment of addiction
Post 3: How to turn Walmart’s ugliest muumuu into sexy DIY loungewear

CHAPTER FOUR…
Post 1: Sandwich to Salad Week Day 1: The ham and cheese sandwich salad
Post 2: Sandwich to Salad Week Day 2: The The fresh off the ‘cobb’ salad that can’t be ‘beet’ + Punny mustard vinaigrette
Post 3: Sandwich to Salad Week Day 3: The ‘too healthy for its own good’ beany bread bonanza salad
Post 4: The solar powered spinach mushroom salad + *BONUS* The ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ salad
Post 5: The happy ham and egg weekend brunch anticipation salad

CHAPTER THREE…
Post 1: Humanist Public Restroom Architecture – How to design a toilet for ‘actual human beings’
Post 2: Recover from a bad first impression using only the clothes on your back – and someone else’s!
Post 3: How to survive a woman who threatens your universe at the atomic level
Post 4: The ‘I want sex tonight’ Steak Sandwich
Post 5: ‘Shrunken head’ man-rescue breakfast oatmeal

CHAPTER TWO…
Post 1: ‘Artistic Bondage’ – DIY hood and handcuffs turn any sketchbook into a stylish mini-tote
Post 2: Fun at work with Vargas inspired DIY Spanx-effect seismic waist shaper
Post 3: When doing the dishes becomes an archeological dig
Post 4: How to turn your morning commute into an impromptu S&M adventure
Post 5: When what to wear to work becomes a military operation – A Che Guevara-ette personal style experiment

CHAPTER ONE…
Post 1: ‘Burning the ugly pants’ personal style makeover comes to Blank Canvas Living
Post 2: The ugly pants burn! An old resolution is torched and a new 2012 personal style makeover begins
Post 3: Fun at work with seismic pattern DIY pencil skirt design
Post 4: How to capture and define your system’s own unique waveform
Post 5: Public Toilet Architecture – Antarctic inspired restroom design