Growing up, my bedroom was small, but cozy with lots of light and well-designed space. It was my haven, and I would spend hours lying on the twin bed my dad built out of wormy chestnut—deeply engrossed in a great book.I discovered Dahl, Fitzhugh, Rawls, and later as a teenager, Salinger, Steinbeck, Hawthorne, Camus, Melville,…
How to Turn on Your Creativity
“An individual’s ability to draw is … the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information—to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.” ~ Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain I’d like to take a moment to thank you for being a part of my community…
The Subtle Creativity Killer
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t…
Being Differently Wired
I stood in the hallway in the elementary wing just outside of her classroom. She leaned in and used a file folder to cover the side of her face. “The truth is is that he didn’t learn what he needed to learn in the first and second grades. I’ve been trying to work with him,…
Creativity Space
The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time and place for production and minimize the unstructured travel time in between…Too, the rhetoric of efficiency around these technologies suggests that what cannot be quantified cannot be valued-that that vast array of pleasures…
Step Around from Behind the Bars
“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.” ~ Paulo Coelho, The AlchemistWe arrived at the gilded Merrill Lynch office at Copley Place in Boston’s Back Bay early that Monday morning. We knew from the previous Friday’s market slide that we might be in for a wild ride from the…
