Leave it to Americans to juxtapose Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Start with a day when we acknowledge our non-material blessings and the joy of community, and follow it up with millions giving their credit cards a pre-dawn workout for what will likely distract them from everything they were expressing such gratitude for just one day [...]
Hi, my name is Sue, and I’m a data junkie. You wouldn’t think a creativity coach would admit to that, but it’s true. I love stats, number crunching and bean counting. Like, for recreation. I guess that makes me a geek, nerd, brainiac or something like that…anything but creative, right? Wrong. My beloved mathematics is [...]
I haven’t posted for a few months while my attention has been focused on the increasing care needs of my elderly parents and then processing my mom’s passing on September 6. Today, as I return to my blog, I’d like to honor my mother by sharing with you all the ways she influenced me creatively. [...]
Stuck because of unanswered questions and uncertainty about what you’re trying to say? Come join the conversation on my guest post at Milli Thornton’s Unleash Your Writing blog: How to Write When You Don’t Know What to Write
My sister sent me this goofy thing this week: 33 Animals Who Are Extremely Disappointed in You. I am completely in love with the Corgi at the end who thinks I’m doing fine and is so proud of me. Let’s face it: we all screw up constantly. We let ourselves and others down. We do [...]
How well do you maintain the most precious tool in your creative work? No, I’m not talking about your computer or paintbrushes. I’m talking about you—your mind and body. Over the last year or two, I’ve started skimping on sleep, but when I look at almost any challenge in my creative work, I see [...]
Sometimes you learn what to do by figuring out what not to do. Every summer, I go on a “vacation” where I share a bedroom in my elderly parents’ house with my son for 5 weeks and don’t get any respite from child care or elder care for 2 1/2 of those weeks. Don’t do [...]
Are you a juggler, like me, with several balls in the air at all times? Despite all our time-saving devices, our daily lives seem to be fuller than ever. Juggling all those balls can leave us feeling like we don’t have time for our creative work. This is actually my own #1 creative obstacle. If [...]
Here’s a video I made for you on my walk in the desert the other day. And yes, that is my light saber that appears at around 1:45.
More than two weeks have gone by since my last post, and that’s pretty much my self-imposed limit unless I’m taking a deliberate hiatus. Which, currently, I am not. Damn. It’s been hard to get around to posting because I have been overwhelmed lately with Things To Do. For the most part, they are things [...]
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