Posts Tagged as ‘creativity’

October 14, 2009

Doors of Welcome for Fall

I’m excited to join in with the Doors of Welcome series generously hosted by Karen at Some Days Are Diamonds. Frankly, one of the things I love best about my new home is the antique door.

I was looking at Michael’s for organizational baskets, when I came upon this one. I remembered there was already a [...]

October 6, 2009

It’s the Little Things

When we moved from Oklahoma to Alabama, we gave away and discarded most of our living room furniture that was either worn out or did not suit the new style to which we had decided to become accustomed. In the meantime, the mis-matched pieces we are using ended up being dumped helter-skelter into the [...]

August 17, 2009

The Art of Daydreaming

Originally published March 23, 2009
Shush, woman daydreaming.
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits. ~Satchel Paige.
I still, after all these years, tend to feel guilty for my strong requirement for time alone to do nothing other than daydream. The world worships goals and productivity. One does not see books with titles such as [...]

March 9, 2007

Writing is a Wholetime Job

Writing is a wholetime job; no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.  — W. Somerset Maugham
It isn’t a question of will you write today. It is a question of what you will write. A writer writes, because he cannot not do so, and keep his sanity.
I used to think [...]

February 28, 2007

There Are No Ugly Babies

Some people like me. Some people don’t. You can never get everyone to like you, so why knock yourself out trying? — Claudette Colbert, great American actress.
You wrote something. You conceived your baby and brought it forth with all of your talent, skill, and passion, and some undefinable magic that compels you to write. There [...]