Let me not think of my work only as a stepping stone to something else. And if it is, let me become fascinated with the shape of the stone. – Ze Frank I had never heard of Ze Frank until today. Wow is really I’ve got to say. Well, not all I’ve got to say. [...]
My 5 year old granddaughter was decorating my house this weekend with the sidewalk chalk. She moved from the wall to the front porch and sidewalk and colored until she was no longer interested. As I looked at this wall this morning I was struck by the beauty and intensity of her art work. So, [...]
Today I trade in words for colors. On Fridays I work in a needlepoint shop;needlework is one of my other passions, I’ve been stitching since I was a teenager. Here I wait on retail clients but it’s play as well as work. A customer comes in with a piece of needlepoint, a design painted on [...]
It’s One Word Wednesday, over at JillsyGirl, where we are invited to be creative-each week a new word gives us some direction and the opportunity to play. Today’s word is passion. Passion is a loaded word, normally our thought goes right to the sexual when we think of passion. And, according to the dictionary there [...]
Last week I talked about left brain right brain as they related to hand dominance. I took a little internet quiz and found that I’m left-brained, though barely, 54%. I want to tap into my right brain with greater regularity-it’s the creative side. In my approach to life, as many of my family will affirm, [...]
I started working for Elance last month, it’s a site for freelancers which allows writers to bid on jobs. I chose not to bid on a job which involved being the ghostdater (vs. ghostwriter) for a guy on an online dating site. He would provide his calendar and the writer would make the contacts -pretending [...]
My blogging friend, Jill, of Elemental…My Dear is in the beginning stages of her photography career (can I say it might become a career?) . And as part of this process she’s going to be posting a photograph a day with a Flickr photography group. She’s sharing this with her readers and giving us the [...]
A writer’s challenge is to bring words to life, to find creative ways to convey a certain meaning without repeating the word. In writing a book review today I needed to find varied ways to talk about a woman’s “journey”. Travels, journey, trip…. sojourn. Sojourn: Noun- a temporary journey Sojourn: Intransitive Verb-to stay as a [...]
