Creative Play Newsletter – Open the Door to Inspiration
We have this book that isn’t really meant to be a children’s book but is one that we read to our daughter called “Good Night iPad.” Describing the things in the room is the phrase “and the bings, bongs, and beeps of e-mails and tweets…” and it is a phrase …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Back to School
It has been a really long time since I went back to school in September, but that doesn’t stop me from feeling like a new year is beginning each time Labor Day rolls around. I no longer go out and buy new notebooks and packs of pencils, but I do …
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The Creativity Habit Podcast
I started listening to a new podcast yesterday called The Creativity Habit™ that I heard about through a newsletter. After subscribing, I scrolled down through the available episodes to see if there were others from the past that I might want to listen to as well. Imagine my surprise when …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Take a Creativity Break
This week’s episode of the Productivity Paradox podcast was about the importance of taking breaks for increasing both productivity and mental clarity. The show host Tonya Dalton speaks about five different kinds of breaks (because social media breaks scrolling through feeds on your phone are counterproductive): Relaxation breaks, Movement breaks, …
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Does Creativity Pay?
In July, the Craft Industry Alliance, of which I am a member, published an interesting and personal blog post from Carrie Bloomston about her decision to give up trying to make a living as an artist and to take a job with a steady paycheck and health insurance instead. The …
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5 Ways to Play Today
During the same week last year that I discussed the 3 Myths of Creativity, I ended with the following post about what to do immediately to add some creative play time: So far this week, I have shared with you why I started Creative Play™ in the first place and …
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3 Myths of Creativity in Adults
As kids, creativity comes naturally to us. We just do creative things as the normal course of our days. But, somewhere along the way to adulthood, we begin talking ourselves out of our own creativity. I call these the “3 Myths of Creativity” and I’ve addressed each one in a …
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Creativity: The Cure for Your Midlife Crisis
I read a very interesting news analysis in The New York Times Sunday Review yesterday. Laura M. Holson wrote about how getting back in touch with one’s creativity is the way many are addressing their midlife crises today. That certainly was true for me. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/sunday-review/creativity-midlife-crisis-cure.html Forget a Fast Car. Creativity …
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Creative Play Newsletter, Vol.3:Issue 1 – The Guiding Principles of Creative Play
It’s hard to believe, but this issue marks the beginning of my third year of Creative Play newsletters. I’ve been giving Creative Play™ a lot of thought over the last two years (and over the last decade) and it seemed like a good time to define a set of guiding …
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The Joy of Analog
My husband gave me a book last year called The Revenge of Analog that proposed that as the world becomes more digital, analog items like paper books, records, fountain pens, and film cameras become more appealing. It all made sense to me because as someone who has spent a lot …
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