The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 9 Collaborating With Ideas. Ideas come from all sorts of places. Songs. Conversation. Billboards. Books. Gardens. Pinterest. I’ve driven along in my car with the radio off and something has dropped into my head. The excitement rises. I can’t wait until I can pull over and scribble it […]
The One Hundred Creative Challenge: Day 8 Each one of us has a unique story to share with the world. A story that is told through our creativity. Whether it’s writing, painting, decorating, styling, fashion, singing, playing an instrument, teaching — anything that springs from our unique perspective. We are designed to be creative. […]
Everyone is creative in some way, shape or form. Some of us make things. Some of us think differently. Some of us make people laugh. Some of us can pull things apart and out them back together. What is it that drives this creativity and why do we have it? I love that my […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 6 Not giving up is one of the brave choices we make. Whether it’s a relationship, a job, a creative pursuit or faith. Tenacity is a quality that brings to mind doggedness, an adventurous spirit, courage and daring. Living a creative life takes more than talent, it takes […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 5 Today I’m thinking about how I’m going to approach the New Year. January’s New Year Resolutions sneer at us in December, confronting us with all we did not achieve. Self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination are gifts we can use every day. Creativity isn’t just […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 4 Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert is the latest book on creativity I’ve studied. There’s something about her down-to-earth, tell-it-like-it-is style that is refreshing. It’s not an artsy-fartsy, pie-in-the-sky book that leaves you feeling inadequate or squashed by the weight of the pressure to be creative. To […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 3 It’s not too late. Today I’m writing a blog about my Indie publishing journey and the integration of art and craft in living a creative life. That’s my challenge today —articulating a process that’s taken several years. Creative living doesn’t mean we have to make a career […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 2 We all love something new. New makes me think of something fresh. Something shiny. Something exciting. When it comes to creative expression or inspiration, trying something new or approaching something with a fresh approach often sparks something new within us. Something that causes us to glow […]
November came and went like a blip on my screen. Thirty days have never gone so fast! I had several medical tests, a surgery, my son’s wedding, went to an author event, several dinners with friends, I wrote and edited several thousands of words and skidded into December like a runner into home base. I […]
