So I started the Artist’s Way in 2008, mostly as a sort of me-too with Xiane and Cassidy and Angelique, two being women in the Etsy beauty products guild I was in. It’s one of those situations where life definitely has a purpose – the beauty stuff was a huge diversion from what I knew […]
The complicated thing about Mikey is that I did have sounding boards who kept warning me to get out. But they were other types of crazymakers, other types of blockers. They wanted this predator cleared so they could get a better crack at me. Mikey did make it clear to me exactly how bad the […]
The creative desert is that uncharted territory. It’s the idea that just might work that people think are absurd. I’ve spent most of my life there, long enough to see rather a lot of vindication. In high school, I went through a phase where I wrote letters to the editor all the time. Most of […]
True North is difficult for me because I made a conscious choice to operate without a navigation system when I was about 19. Before then, I was under a great deal of pressure to “plan my life.” My parents informed me I needed to pick a major, stick with it, stay at the same college […]
In a perfect world, I would 1. live somewhere warm 2. travel freely and often 3. dance a lot more 4. be able to see friends often 5. have the perfect social/home life balance 6. be able to write without back pain 7. never miss gym time ever. 8. find a yoga class that is […]
I could get attached to… Because […]
What Cameron speaks of here is not the real Greek Chorus coming out to warn the hero (like the hero can even see them, anyway) but the one that we conjure in our heads … sometimes just to have something to complain about. So, going through the questions – there’s one guy I’m picking on […]
Actually, I have so many positive role models it’s hard to pick one. Right now I”m thinking of Dawn. Dawn decided what she wanted to do and did it. She has told me she has a no-drama policy. If someone is too prone to madness she drops them or just refuses to engage. She is […]
For the next few weeks I’m participating in an Artist’s Way creative cluster as part of a blog carnival over at Magickal Realism. I am hoping that it opens new creative seeds within me, and that you will see the results of that work here – I am also hoping it will give me more time to pause and appreciate the works of others.