A couple of years ago, I took a free class on Coursera (or a similar MOOC), with a focus on increasing creativity. It wasn't graded or for credit, and it was as...
I first want to express my gratitude to all of you who have stopped by in this first month of live posting, and sent in comments, text messages, emails, social ...
I've been having so much fun this week with my sister in town. We've been bumbling around town, hanging out at coffee shops, doing art, and generally having a l...
You wanna make this girl happy? Skip the jewelry, the fancy dinner, the shopping, the bouquets. I don't want any of that. Give me an hour with a tree.
Yep, I...
Today I welcome Samantha Kuhr, founder of My Travelling Circus (yes, the British spelling, as she says!), mama extraordinaire, and all-around smart and in...
Today I wanted to share one of my favorite songs with you, a song that gets me every time. "Rise Up" by Andra Day is one of those songs that perfectly mesh powe...
I always loved reading as a child. Sadly, once I got to high school, I hated 90% of the literature assigned—stuffy old texts with descriptions of settings that ...
A couple of years ago, I traded in my decade old blue VW Golf for a shiny new blue VW Golf. It wasn't that I planned to be so brand loyal. It was just... famili...
What does it mean to bare *everything* in the name of creativity? What can be discovered by tapping so deeply into the core of your being that there are no word...
I love it when my mind starts chasing down connections, especially when they're linguistic in nature. (Crossword puzzle loving nerd alert, right here!)
So th...