Made By Humans
Mr. Bean has been our cat for almost 15 years. We got him and his brother, Louis, the year we got married. They were together for 13 years, and were our furry kids for a long time before we had a human child. There’s no denying that Bean is old, and he acts like a […]
Did anyone try writing poetry last week? It’s seriously a lot of fun. This week’s creativity boost is a different kind of prompt. Not a specific type of creative act, but something to get you past wondering where to begin that you can take to whatever kind of creative act you like. Because it’s Halloween […]
When I learned about All Done Monkey’s 31 Days of ABC series, I knew I needed to handle Y so I could talk about ways to play with yarn with kids. The girl has been immersed in yarn her whole life, but she is always excited when I make a project or an activity basket […]
When I was in New Mexico, we spent the evening of the autumnal equinox huddled in the zendo, sheltered from a cold rain, talking about and writing haiku. That may be the most pompous sentence I’ve ever written. Still. Traditionally in America we think of haiku as being three-lined poems, with an emphasis on nature, […]
It starts around the weekend of the first college football game. We want to call it fall, but that’s in August so everyone knows it’s not really fall. Then there’s Labor Day, when the rest of the country can declare it to be fall but we are still sweltering same as ever. September is not […]
I know not everyone who reads this site is a writer, and I know that writing is not the only way to be creative, but establishing a writing practice is an act of creativity that I think can help a lot of people be more creative, even if they don’t primarily create with words. What […]
We have a fall wreath that I made last year, which I like because it can hang from September to November without looking out of place. But this year I really wanted to do an easy Halloween wreath to celebrate the season. After making those felt butterfly wings for the girl’s birthday, I had a […]