Here's the scene. Creativity in Action Two little blond-haired boys gathered up all the small metal cars, re-purposed the plastic racing rails, and spent hours in a world of their own making. As those tiny racers zipped down the track from the top bunk to the finish line padded [...]
I cherished my sandbox. My dad would pour sand into the box he built for me, and I would sift and push the sand around in little heaps for hours. But I found that playing in the black dirt of the vegetable and flower gardens exposed greater rewards. Small [...]
I don’t always start the day with spunk and enthusiasm. What can I, or any of us do when we find ourselves sanding in the space between where we are today and where we want to be? Do you “mind the gap?” “Mind the gap” originated around 1968 in [...]
Likely, daffodils, tulips, and crocuses crossed your mind. Or maybe you remembered the cacophony of wildflowers framing the roadway like an invitation to somewhere important. The earth awakes this time of year, but something else brightens these spring days. Welcome to April and National Poetry Month! Please don’t [...]
Sometimes, I hesitate to say the thing that longs to be said to the people I care about and even strangers. Everyone can use a few kind words, but like me, we pause, leaving the words hanging in mid-air, only a thought bubble. Mark Twain, alias Samuel Clemens, remember [...]
Is there anything we can agree on amid all the adversity dividing us? We all seem to hold tightly to what makes us feel safe, convinced that our way is the right way, the only way. But is it? Miguel Ruiz left neurosurgery to explore the spiritual side of [...]
I come from a long line of creators. Not the famous or recognized, rather, those ordinary, everyday people who see what's needed—the functional and the beautiful. My grandmother rarely sat still. She tended her vegetable and flower gardens, quilted, and crocheted doilies. My mother and all of her sisters [...]
So many ideas. So many moments to share. So much life to live. Some days, it is enough to stop and look for the good. It is the balm we need to take the next step, to keep going. So, today, I have sunshine and spring breezes calling to [...]
“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful… This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.” Agnes De Mille Deep within me has always been the desire to dance. Not any particular style — just a body [...]
I wanted the storybook version—the 1960s TV rendition of a family and a dad. I didn’t get that, but I still learned love. The shade from the boxy white station wagon shielded us from the blazing sun. With the side door half open, I gazed at the turquoise interior—a sea, [...]
