Imagination Is the Key
The children have littered their end of the table with cellophane straw wrappers after gleefully launching them at each other like blowgun darts. They land haphazardly amid [...]
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This Is a Safe Place | For Here, Please
Two weeks ago, during a massage that felt about four years overdue, I voiced a struggle to let go of tension. Lori, the gifted massage therapist tending to me, said something [...]
Creative Lifestyles | 12 Free Handwriting Fonts
One of the things I’d like to do more (or at all, if I’m being honest) in 2015 is send more letters. There’s something wonderful about checking the mailbox and seeing [...]
A Window Of Hope
I love hanging out with my dad; perhaps we seem a matched set, even, with our lanky limbs and prominent noses, his hair still as blonde at 64 as it is in my mother’s [...]
The Family That Plays Together | “Sharktapiranhapus!”
We didn’t set out to make a 25-minute epic. It was supposed to be a simple little flick about a shark with a mouth full of piranhas and an octopus coming out of his butt. [...]
Fearless Kindness | Background Noise
I’m terrible at mornings. Especially noisy, chaotic mornings, and as a mother of three that pretty much means all mornings. I wake up slightly anxious. I don’t spring [...]
Write Love | NaNoWriMo In Just 3 Days
Dude. Where did October go? I was sitting over there filing my nails and making glib promises to write a novel in 30 days, and suddenly Halloween is here and I have to get [...]
Barb Wired | 3 To Try: Creative Camera Apps
It’s been said that the best camera you own is the one you have with you. For most of us, that camera is housed in a smartphone. The best part about that? The apps, of [...]
Sweatpants & Creativity | What A Beautiful Mess You’ve Got There
No, really, that’s a nice mess. I’ve never seen something so lusciously wrecked and full of compostable possibility. Okay, that’s a lie. I’ve seen myself, and [...]
