Doesn’t it seem like things often come in threes? That’s the case for me: I’ve got three good things going on that you might want to know about: [Read more…]
Read My Mind, Baby!
Here's where you'll find all my writings — articles on creativity, creative productivity, getting unstuck, being a passion pluralite, and more, and behind-the-scenes journal entries on the wonderful, messy, sometimes really hard reality of living a creative that so few ever actually share.
I have a lot of other blog feeds here that you might also be interested in, though:
Podcast – my weekly podcast, The Creative Sandbox Way™.
Animation – fun with stop-motion animation!
Art in Progress – works in progress (be a fly on the wall in my studio!)
Calligraphy – calligraphy videos, tips, and tutorials
Music Loops – audio experiments in being a one-woman band, using Loopy app
Project 3x5x365 – my year-long tiny-but-daily writing experiment
This is One Chain that Leads to Liberation (and Might Just Get You High as a Kite)
Available for purchase — contact me for details.
I don’t know about you, but I hate being tied down or boxed in. I always thought of myself as allergic to schedules.
I’m a creative — I want to be free to do whatever I want, whenever I want! Routine is just so, well, routine.
Boooooooooring!
But is routine really so constraining? The truth is, [Read more…]
Quenching the Thirst for Enoughness
For sale in the art shop.
Spring 1999.
I was at a 5-day calligraphy workshop in Berkeley when somebody mentioned that all the faculty had been selected for the next International Calligraphy Conference, to be hosted by my home calligraphy guild, the Friends of Calligraphy, the following summer.
The relevant point here is that the faculty had all been selected, and I hadn’t even been invited to submit a proposal.
I was devastated. Cut to [Read more…]
The Truth About Balance
When I was 23, I learned something about balance that I never forgot.
That was the year I taught 3- and 4-year olds at a nursery school in the Berkeley Hills.
I did not know back then that I was an artist. I did not know I was creative in the least. In fact, I thought I was the must uncreative person on the planet.
I was one of those people who, when talking to a professional creative, would say something like, “Oh, I’m not creative. I can’t even draw a straight line.”
(As if drawing a straight line has anything to do with creativity! WTF??)
But I digress. [Read more…]
Three Heads Ups and Some Comic (Musical) Relief
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First Heads Up: More Reasons to Do Your Art
If you’ve followed me for any time at all, hopefully you’ve already been armed with a whole trunk full of reasons for why getting to your creative thing is essential, not self-indulgent or frivolous.
If you want more reasons, though, [Read more…]
