Creativity
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How Adding Limits can Supercharge Creativity: the 3-Marker Challenge
I love watching kids create. They naturally come up with these little tricks to supercharge creativity, and they don’t even know they’re doing it. We just returned from a Washington Coast getaway with family, and as usual, the kids taught me a thing or two about creativity. Really, I think we can learn a lot […]
Tips for Regenerating Creativity
When the creative well runs dry, getting your spark back requires action.
How to make baby shoe ornaments
When Gem grew out of her first baby shoes, I couldn’t bear to get rid of them. I wanted to keep them, but I didn’t want them just tucked away in a box for decades either. I didn’t know what to do with them until we started putting up our Christmas tree. Now, they are […]
Nothing to see here
It’s happened to me time and again, I take my camera out on a photo walk and everything is all wrong. The light is flat, the scenery dull and uninteresting. I wonder what I’m doing out in the cold and wind, and I just want to give up and go home. There’s nothing to see […]
Living in the gap
We don’t get practice time, and then go out and live our lives after we’ve perfected ourselves. We go out and try things, see if they work, we fall down, we get up, we embarrass ourselves, we don’t die of embarrassment – but we don’t get to practice life without an audience. And that audience usually has an opinion. It doesn’t matter.
That thing that scares you… do it.
I toyed with the idea of a photography show intermittently for a couple years, but something always stopped me. I couldn’t imagine working up the courage to approach someone about showing my work. I wasn’t sure my work was good enough. I was scared – scared of both failure and success. Then one day in […]
Only in Seattle
Seattle Street Art, Georgetown.
Foggy morning in Seattle
I love foggy mornings in Seattle. Quiet, calm, less chaotic than other days. Everything pared down to just what’s right in front of me. Foggy days just seem simpler.
Super Girl
The theme for her best friend/cousin’s birthday party was superheroes, and my girl was determined to go to this party as Super Girl. Who is Super Girl? She’s the bestest. She rescues people and stops the bad guys and she’s super fast. We looked at a lot of superhero costumes, but none of the were […]
Summer Solstice Sunset
We slipped into summer quietly: a lovely day, followed by a lovely sunset. Since the solstice, our weather has been all over the place. Right now we are enjoying a thunder and lightning storm, this following a hot, blue-skied afternoon. And tonight, this lovely summer solstice sunset. How did your summer get started?