
why you should go somewhere new
The summer has ended abruptly, slamming shut the wide open spaces I had been using to create. This blip of a summer was my muse, and I...

1 simple way to find creative encouragement
Using creativity is hard work. It is challenging, frustrating, and sometimes feels lonely, doesn't it? We need encouragement to keep goi

firsts (or the joy of the new)
Recently I took a few of the top students in my English class to a non-profit organization dedicated to papermaking, book binding, and...

you should write a poem
April is around the corner, and is also National Poetry Month, so you should write a poem. Now, I know what some of you are saying. “But...

for the discouraged and disillusioned
There are weeks that fall heavy, sharp, and cold, like an icy rain in a winter of unusual warmth. There are thoughts reverberating about...

things that keep us from creating
Winter always brings us close to the reality that there are seasons. The purposes of those seasons are for good, and the incubation of ideas

for the makers and creatives
It was probably something small―do you remember it? A picture, or a place setting, a package or a envelope scrawled in lilting cursive....