I have a list of things I want to try this year. A kind of subset to my list of things to do before I die. This list is compiled of offbeat things that sound interesting to me, or artistic …
6 Ways to Feed Your Creative Spirit
Sometimes life is a rabid wood chipper chewing you up and spitting you out the other side. Okay, that was a bit extreme. But you get it. Life can get messy and manic and leave you blinking, wondering where all …
Carving Out Quiet Time
Day one of getting my creative flow going, I carved out some quiet time. It’s still technically spring here in the desert (only got to the low 90s today), so I grabbed a blanket and a couple of books and …
Regaining A Sense of Creative Self
In some countries, constant noise is used as a form of torture. Sometimes I wonder if my family hasn’t studied up on this technique, and isn’t using me as their guinea pig. OK, maybe that’s over the top. Still, the last …
How would you prefer to go?
This weekend, I heard a segment on NPR’s Sunday edition of All Things Considered about The Final Works of Famous Composers. Guy Raz interviewed composer and writer Jan Swafford who’d studied the final works of a number of famous composers …