Last night I watched La La Land. For the second time. And as I watched it for this second time, I was thinking to myself, I could easily watch this again. And this from someone who rarely watches movies (at… Read More ›
Creativity
On Why I Am Not a Poet
A few years ago, I started going to a local poetry workshop. I was introduced to the workshop by a new friend who was himself an emerging poet. The group was small and friendly, and the meetings were structured around… Read More ›
Die Empty – Todd Henry
Die empty . . . I don’t know why, but this idea really resonates with me. It could be the juxtaposition of living fully with dying empty. It could be the notion of leaving everything on the table. No hold… Read More ›
On Creativity: MAKE Something, Not Make Some THING
I spent all day Saturday in a blaze of creative fire. Somehow the idea had floated across my field that I should start a podcast. Don’t ask. It doesn’t matter. What matters is that I was completely immersed for a… Read More ›
Big Magic ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I really did not want to read this book. I mean the author wrote Eat, Pray, Love for crying out loud! No, I did not actually read that book, but they made a movie out of it and cast Julia Roberts… Read More ›
Future Self
Tracking Wonder Quest # 4 is brought to us by Dr. Tina Seelig, faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. She asks – What advice would your future self a year from now give you today? My response this… Read More ›
No Failure
This week I took on the challenge of envisioning a creative plan for 2016, by joining Tracking Wonder’s Quest 2016, and blogging to the prompts they post three times a week. Quest # 3 posed by author, educator, brand strategist,… Read More ›
I have counted the pages
I will have enough if I keep to my three-a-day But what if Paris is just too big to fit neatly between the margins the boulevards so wide the bookshelves so crammed with volumes and volumes of artists and painters… Read More ›
Still Writing: The Perils & Pleasures of a Creative Life ~ Dani Shapiro
I can’t remember now how I came upon this book. Probably a reference in a reference in a book I once read. Whatever the source, I decided to borrow it from the library rather than spring for the $9.99 on… Read More ›