Does Weather Influence Your Creativity?
Are the many moods of creativity affected by weather? Take a short survey about your own creative response.
What’s Everyone Got Against Adverbs?
Is your writing adverb-free? I hope not. Here’s my case in favor of those lushly descriptive modifiers of verbs.
Making Space for What Counts
Making space for what counts is not so much a resolution as a life goal. Here’s how I’m doing it this year.
Cheap Tricks with Pattern and Light
I really hate Venetian blinds. But they do make useful photographic props.
How Four Words Got Me Back on the Writing Track
The long road to epic: When you put your own priorities first, you’ll finish your novel.
A Year to Measure by the Numbers
There are many measures of a year, but for me, 2014 is most memorable in pictures.
Top 10 Signs You Ought To Try Coworking
The worldwide pandemic of loneliness that afflicts so many freelancers and writers has a cure. Take this test.
The Hippest Holiday Art Fair in Town
Find out why the Austin American-Statesman calls the Blue Genie Art Bazaar “simply the hippest holiday art fair in town.”
Shopping Local With The Locals
There’s more than mere fun and festivities involved when you shop local.
The Power of the Flower . . . and the Pie
There’s a powerful connection between print making and pie baking before the holidays.
Where Do Ideas Come From? Crazy Places
Inspiration and creativity may not be as mysterious as the experts would have us think.
Are You Captive to Clutter?
Here’s my recipe for getting a grip on your chaos-driven, clutter-filled life.
Lost and Found Treasures
How does discovery reward the disorganized mind? With bounty and sweetness.
Are There Any Advantages to Being Disorganized?
Sure there are. Here are three advantages to being disorganized, with a fourth possibility to consider.
Unfolding in Luxury
Enjoy an image that unfolds in slow, sensual luxury, from my Naturescapes collection.
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