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5 Things to do to Silence Your Critic
Our internal critic can bring us to excellence or paralyze us in procrastination. Recently, my critic did both. I wrote and performed t...
Stepping into a sugarless life felt like signing up for my first art class
I meet up on the phone with nutritionist Margaret at Eat Naked Now. According to Margaret, by giving up sugar, wheat, and dairy I would...
Writing morning pages “like an oxygen mask.”
You’ve heard a flight attendant say “In the unlikely event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will drop down from the pan...
Reset Required
What Happened
One day I looked in the mirror and realized I embodied a Glamour Don’t. My pantie line and muffin top was a tell-all a...
Less Sugar More Creativity
I was fat, and the sugar detox was my chosen cure. My expectation was a thinner me. I didn’t count on the resulting creativity boost. I...
Keeping a Journal to Deter Sugar and Increase Creativity
I committed to keep a journal about my sugarless life. I’ve been a sporadic journal keeper since taking Kelly Morgan’s Creative Life Cl...
9 Ways to Foster Your Creativity
Silvano Arieti wrote a book in 1976 called Creativity: The Magic Synthesis (you can get a used copy through amazon.com).
Here are his ...
Artist’s Regime – Duane Keiser
One of the first online “paintings a day blogger” was Duane Keiser. Since 2004 I’ve received daily inspirational paintings. I was curio...
Write From Your Heart AND Head
On this video, I talked about how to avoid three traps that cause you to wres...
