every day living with a touch of creativity
She may not be gone yet, she may not have even bought her plane ticket yet, but summer is getting ready to leave us. The nights are getting dark a little sooner. The mornings, perhaps, a bit cooler. The blossoms’ petals are beginning to fall. Our summer has been a full one: bikes and baseball [...]
So remember how your elementary teachers sent home the dreaded reading list each summer? Well, this is a list (I hope) you will be dying to tackle. In anticipation of the Creative Photographer series coming this month, I thought it would be fun to look at your essential photography library. Online resources and tutorials can [...]
Since we are celebrating Simple Living this month, I racked my brain for some phenomenal, creative idea that was going to rock your world. But the more I thought about it, all those great organizational and planning tips seemed unimportant. What great idea can I give you to simplify your life? Breathe deeply, look around [...]
Spring has many highlights — warmer days, lush green grass, brilliant blue skies and gorgeous flowers in all shades and colors. But this month we are playing tribute to the beauty of YELLOW. She can be a trickster — sometimes a bit greenish, other times leaning to orange — but always she brings a bit [...]
Blogging is a powerful tool — for building your business, sharing your life with far-flung family or for expressing your creative side. But it also can be a power for good. When I first started blogging, I was experiencing infertility and found an amazing crew of women who not only became my personal support group, [...]
Living a creative life can be exhausting, especially if you are hooked in to the internet. There are just so many amazing people out there, doing amazing things. It can be easy to develop a warped perspective — like looking at someone else’s life through a fisheye lens all the time. If you’re not careful, [...]
Several years ago I lived in Buffalo, NY where, yes, we often got quite a bit of snow. Luckily for me, we lived in the north suburbs where lake-effect snow isn’t quite so severe. However, worse than lake-effect snow is the length of winters in Buffalo, endless days of gray, dreary skies. Now I grew [...]
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