#creativity

My writing ideas have mostly sprung from my intense imagination and my very talkative intuition but there are also concrete methods I use to stir the idea pot. Some of the idea-producing tactics I have listed below are ones I have used for years, some are new to me as of recently, and some practi...

It's weird just hard it is for me start going on anything. These past few weeks I've really gotten back into art which I have not done in a very long time. But this time around I have Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Youtube (fuck you, Youtube) to distract me which I didn't really give a shit…

I got a phone call from the Breast Cancer people soliciting funds this morning. I am already on the Do Not Call list but I know this kind of call is exempt. I really don't know why I picked up the phone once I saw what it was but I did. I said "Hello" and…

OK, it is driving me stark staring MAD. I went to all the trouble to find shelf supports at Amazon, because, you know, movers  don't take those little doohickies and put them in an envelope so they can be replaced easily by the owner of said moved HUGE bookshelf which is totally USELESS with...

Several questions were asked about me still having an English accent even after all the years I have been here in the States. Well, I have it still because I have made an effort to keep it. Since I was an English teacher, it was an asset in my job. I like my accent! That…

I went to the "making journals" workshop this afternoon, and, on the whole, enjoyed it a lot. It was not that I learned anything I didn't already know how to do, but it was invigorating to be making art again and fun to be doing it with a group of women. It is possible I…

There is still a lot to do in this apartment but I have got started on it. For a few days after I moved back, I really did nothing because there seemed so MUCH to do I literally couldn't get myself to start. Then a day or so ago, I forced myself to start, and…

The final news on the cell phone brouhaha---I have a new cell phone that I didn't pay for and, so far, it works. But I will never totally trust it again. Details: I talked to a supervisor that I had to go through two people to get. The big problem was that I had $100…

It has been a week since I wrote and I have spent a lot of it getting myself out of a depressive situation. I have gone through this depression stuff many times and when I lived in Vermont and with Fred, I had lots of coping skills. This time I was depressed a few days…

I learned this today. I haven't tried it yet, but I will. Fear not for the future, weep not for the past Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English Poet   Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, t...