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LCN 116: Forgiving Myself for Being Human

LCN 116: Forgiving Myself for Being HumanI came home from my week in the redwoods at Jazz Camp West, right on the heels of a week on the East Coast, at the Creative Problem Solving Institute, with a couple of days at Niagara on the Lake wrapping up a mastermind group I’ve been in since last Fall… and I promptly got sick.

I’ve been in bed for three days straight.

So today’s podcast is a short one. It’s something I shared over in my Creative Sandbox Way Readers & Doers Facebook group, and my Creative Sandbox Community Facebook group, and it got a lot of positive response. So I thought I’d share it on [Read more…]

Snapshot from My Studio: July 03, 2017 at 07:42PM


This is what tends to happen to the margins of my notebook paper… #creativesandbox #creativesandboxway #doodle #doodles #doodleart #doodleartist #doodlesofinstagram #dailydoodle2017 #dailydoodle #dailycreative #dailyart #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #abstractart #originalart #originalartwork

Snapshot from My Studio: July 03, 2017 at 01:58PM


Back home after almost three solid weeks of being away, and I get slammed with a cold. ?
I’ve spent the past two days in bed–achey, headachey, just plain drained.

Not too drained to doodle, though! ?
Even when I’m feeling crappy, I can still play in the #creativesandbox.
Just give me something to draw with and something to draw on, and a quick reminder that there is no wrong (that’s Guidepost #1), so I can get in that Creative Sandbox mindspace, and PLAY!

My body still feels crappy, but I’m in a happier mood. That’s gotta be a good thing. ?

#creativesandboxway #doodle #doodles #doodleart #doodleartist #doodlesofinstagram #dailydoodle2017 #dailydoodle #dailycreative #dailyart #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #abstractart #originalart #originalartwork

LCN 115: [REPLAY] How to Juggle Multiple Passions & Interests: My Stovetop Model of Life Design for Multi-passionates

LCN 115: [REPLAY] How to Juggle Multiple Passions & Interests: My Stovetop Model of Life Design for Multi-passionatesI’m off in the woods at Jazz Camp West this week. It’s the one island of time during my year when I’m completely offline — no internet, no cell connection, no nuthin’ but real-time connections with real human beings.

It’s magical. 

I sleep in a tent under the redwoods and do things I never get to do the rest of the year.

Like play drums. And steel pans. And reconnect with singing, and my ukulele, both of which have been sorely neglected in 2017.

I was even thinking of taking a casino rueda class (kind of like the salsa dancing version of square dancing), which is something I was wildly into back in 1999-2000, but have barely done at all since then, thanks to a foot injury, and then, well, life.

That’s what summer camp is for: deep dives into fun.

Anyway, since Jazz Camp comes right on the heels of my trip to Buffalo for the CPSI conference, and I already tapped out my plan-ahead muscles to the max, I thought this would be a good time to pull out an episode from the archives. (Yeah, there I go again with the transparency. Can’t help it!)

My Stovetop Model of Life Design is one that really could use a revisit periodically, and it’s been a couple of years, so without further ado, here ya go! 

Do you struggle with how to juggle all your passions and interests? In this episode I share how I learned to embrace my passion pluralite nature, AND how to effectively manage it, using my Stovetop Model of Life Design. [Read more…]

Snapshot from My Studio: June 22, 2017 at 08:00AM


My week at the #CreativeProblemSolvingInstitute #cpsi2017 was packed to the rafters with activity, so my doodle time was usually in class, in my notebook. Studies show that doodling / constructing / assembling with no set outcome actually enhances retention of information.

Doing so with a predetermined outcome has the opposite effect, so don’t try to draw a portrait or still life or landscape while attending a lecture and expect to absorb any of it!
But random doodling or assembling LEGO® bricks in a random manner (three-dimensional doodling!), as I did in between assigned exercises in the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop last Saturday, actually HELPS you absorb and retain info!

Go ahead, doodle! ?

#creativesandbox #creativesandboxway #doodle #doodles #doodleart #doodleartist #doodlesofinstagram #dailydoodle2017 #dailydoodle #dailycreative #dailyart #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #abstractart #originalart #originalartwork

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