Listen: can you hear the siren song of the creating life? What is creativity? To me, creativity is the impulse to change other people’s hearts and minds by shining a new light on old ideas. To heed this impulse, we use many different tools: a paintbrush, a camera, a computer…
The secret creative
Are you a secret creative? Do you have a pile of ideas for novels or paintings or films that you never get around to making? All too often, this stems from fear – the fear of being rejected, or praised for the wrong reasons. The Accidental Filmmaker Recently, a friend…
Bathing suit frog
After weeks of blistering temperatures, it’s finally cool out. I’m celebrating the occasion by sitting on my patio, enjoying my black-eyed susans and cone flowers and daisies in the magnificent wildflower garden my husband built for me. As I mused over what to write about this morning, I noticed bathing…
My secret crush
I have a confession to make. This morning I intentionally listened to Big Time Rush, and Sam wasn’t even in the car. Shameful Despite my outward disdain for all things mainstream and my incessant teasing of my best friend from high school, [name withheld], who was both straight and a…
Getting by with a little help…
I’m a lucky girl. I’ve been pretty stressed over the last few months. Personal stuff has been happening around me. Business has been a bit slow. The same old demons have continued to plague me. Finally, in an act of sheer desperation, I did something I almost never do. I…