Friday Bookstack is a weekly series featuring the books I currently have on my nightstand. I believe that diversity of interests is vital to encouraging creativity, so I pick up books on a wide variety of topics. I don’t always read the entire book, but I feel that exposure to even some of [...]
Have you ever had a terrific idea for a story, a painting, or a piece of jewelry, but didn’t start right away because you didn’t have time, or were in the middle of something else? And by the time you could start on the project, you weren’t interested anymore? This happens to me [...]
Today I’d like to highlight one of my favorite blogs. The Dilbert Blog not only contains some of cartoonist Scott Adams’ thoughts on his famous comic strip, but also displays some of Scott’s creative thinking about topics from peace in the Middle East to hypnosis. I love the Dilbert comics, but I think [...]
It’s a big word, for a big thing that happens. It’s a great wind rushing through me, carrying away the house, Toto, everything. It’s a well that floods, then dries up when I’m thirstiest. It’s a fickle god, but I have no choice but to worship.
It’s a big word that the dictionary definition hardly captures [...]
It happens all the time. I’m pacing the apartment, sitting down with a book, then getting up to wander again. I’m looking for something. My brain won’t stop racing; it won’t slow down and tell me what I need. Then I suddenly know: I need to make something.
I sit down with [...]
