Friday Photo: Hosta Flower

Friday, 28 September 2007, 7:00 | Category : Photography
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Every other Friday I post one of my photos. I’m always working on developing my skills and welcome your input. Please leave your feedback in the comments.

To use this photo as a desktop wallpaper, download the standard (1600 x 1200) resolution or the widescreen (1900 x 1200) resolution.

You Are What You Read

Thursday, 27 September 2007, 7:00 | Category : Writing
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Have you ever read a book by an author with a particularly powerful voice and later found yourself writing or even thinking in that voice? I recently experienced this again reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. The combination of the first-person narrator and his distinct medieval mindset created a voice [...]

Blog Action Day: No Impact Man

Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 6:38 | Category : Reviews
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In the next few weeks leading up to Blog Action Day on October 15, I’m taking the opportunity to discuss creative ways to be environmentally friendly. This week, I want to review the No Impact Man blog, one of the most creative ways to help the environment I’ve seen.
No Impact Man is [...]

Reflections on Letter Writing

Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 9:22 | Category : Writing
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The more I’ve been writing lately, the more I’ve thought about getting in touch with my writing professors from college. I’d like to say thanks for everything they taught me. I used to correspond fairly regularly with some of them, sometimes even mailing a letter rather than sending an email. The novelty of [...]

Learning Patience

Monday, 24 September 2007, 8:12 | Category : Creativity
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Ideas come in floods or not at all. Right now the floodwaters are roiling across the surface of my serenity, lapping against the crumbling sand of my island of sanity. Every so often I’m seized by this frenzy of creativity. I want to learn everything, now. I want to do everything, now.
I [...]