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Project: Family Mailbox
By Ellen Olson-Brown This project hits all the bases. Using recycled and very inexpensive materials? Check! Encouraging kids to create, decorate, and bedazzle to their heart’s content? Check!...
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2011~2012: Review, Celebrate, Plan
My New Year’s Eve ritual is to review my goals for the past year, see how things panned out, and make note of the year’s highlights (both in successes and unexpected challenges). Then I take some time...
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2012 Year Plan: Practice and Intentions
This is part two of my New Year’s post series. The first one is 2011-2012: Review, Celebrate, Plan. My plan for 2012 is a folio of intentions. The 2012 list of focus areas and specific bullets looks a...
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Creating in the Middle of Things
How many years pass while we wait for the “right” time to do something? Even after decades of adulthood, many of us still believe that one day — in the not too distant future — somehow, eventually,...
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Everything and Nothing: A Day in the Life
Yesterday was one of those days filled with everything and nothing. I bet you can relate. It started in the wee hours: 12:30 am My three oldest (Russell, Matthew, and Emma) return home from a Dear...
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Six Months and Counting: Where Are You?
Amazingly, we’re just past the halfway mark of 2012. This is a great time to review the plans or resolutions you made at the beginning of the year. Are you on course? Do you need to make a few...
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Making Creative Hay Outside
During August, I’ll be sharing a few choice tidbits from the archives. Enjoy! If it’s summertime in your part of the world — or if you live in a mild climate and enjoy fair weather more often than not...
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The Artist at Work: Do You Welcome the Family, or Bar the Door?
I enjoy starting my daily morning writing practice by reading a page in Fred White’s daybook The Daily Writer: 366 Meditations to Cultivate a Productive and Meaningful Writing Life. Today’s entry was...
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Three Words for 2013
The new year has begun. At the two-week mark I’m ready to get specific about how I want to approach the months ahead. At about this time last year, I posted my personal review of 2011, and then my...
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How to Do One Thing this Summer
In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s warm and the days are long. The kids are out of school. We hope for leisurely days, hours spent outside, lots of reading, cooking on the grill, and hopefully a bit of...
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Making Creative Hay Outside
Enjoy this seasonal reprint from the archives! If it’s summertime in your part of the world — or if you live in a mild climate and enjoy fair weather more often than not — think about using outside...
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How to turn your life on its head in 12 months or fewer
Some of you have noticed that our sweet little blog has been neglected this summer. In retrospect, I should have scheduled and declared a short blog break, but I didn’t have the foresight to know how...
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Why You Need to Leave
Despite our romantic fantasies of the tortured artist producing works of genius, creativity is supported by wholeness and authenticity. Just as the best crops grow in ground that has been appropriately...
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How to Start Creating Again After Kids
Emily Bennett By Emily Bennett It was about two weeks after my son was born when I said to my husband, or maybe I wailed, “I am going to have to do something because this is SO HARD!” Two weeks into...
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The Monday Post: 11.6.17
Happy Monday, friends! What in the creative realm would you like to accomplish this week? Comment below with the what, when, and how! And if you commented on last week’s Monday Post, let us know how...
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Poetry in Pandemia: Liz Pike
Approximately 84 years ago—back in January 2018—we introduced you to writer Elisabeth Pike. Since then, Liz welcomed a fourth child and launched a new creative initiative, Voice at the Window: 100...
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