Cue song-- "The End" I've either been a student or a teacher for the past thirty-eight years, so for me, late June signifies "the end." In the past few weeks, I finished up my pottery class, a writing class and said farewell to my class. The cherry on top was cleaning out the classroom I've been … Continue reading “Happy Thoughts” Pottery Collection
Let's get visual, visual. I wanna get visual---let me what you can draw, what you can draw---let me see what you can draw.... Most people are visual—it’s how we put together clues. It’s how we interpret meaning. If you ask most people (apart from musicians and music-lovers) whether they’d rather lose their sight or their … Continue reading The Gift of Something More Visual
How it took me three days to force myself to make the zucchini bread and four days to finish this blog post--even though it was so easy to do once I stopped thinking about it. (Long title for a post, huh? But it sort of says it all…) Ever have those days, months or years? … Continue reading Overwhelmed? Me too…
Experiments, Seinfeld and Literature are three of my big favourites in life. Experiments Ask my mother—even as a young girl I loved to experiment. When my aunt and my mom went dancing, my cousin Mickey and I would take all of my mother’s baking supplies and half of what was in the fridge and play … Continue reading On Experiments, Seinfeld and Literature
If I can give you advice on anything, I'd have to say write about what you know—and what you don’t know. It took me over forty years to realize that most people don’t analyze things as much as I do. In April, a friend told me I was making him crazy with all of my questions. … Continue reading Write About What You Know—and What You Don’t Know
This weekend, I had the opportunity to discuss creative process—which just happens to be one of my favourite topics. These are questions I've been asked many times, so you might be wondering about them too. When you write in the first person (“I”), are you writing about yourself? Not specifically--it's really genre-specific. Anyone who's read … Continue reading Creative Process: First Person, Present Tense