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

August 18, 2020

The strangest gift I’ve received from the pandemic

It’s a discussion topic you can’t miss these days: gifts from the pandemic.

Silver linings from this disaster that’s befallen us.

Like weekly Zoom calls with my nephew, who lives in London (and has my hair!). Those never happened before COVID.

Some people are learning to bake bread.

Others are getting more time in their gardens (goodness knows, that’s not me, alas…)

But perhaps the strangest gift I’ve received, and the one that sparks delight, awe, confusion, and frustration in equal measures, and all throughout the day?

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July 29, 2020

My experiment with NOT meditating

Back in May, I got a gift subscription to the Calm app — a little perk of being a Kaiser-Permanente member.

For about five weeks I used it (almost) every day to do a 10-minute meditation.

I “discovered” meditation years ago, thanks to Susan Piver’s Open Heart Project. I’ve fallen off the wagon, and gotten back on, many times in the intervening years.

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