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Take a Creativity Break to Recharge Your Brain

Learning from the Movies: the Concept of the Tenth Man from World War Z

As a creativity researcher, I love ideas that seem out of the box. Recently, I attended the Maryland Libraries Futures Conference. This reminded me of some of the previous experience and training I have had with strategic planning using futurist techniques. One of the tools...

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The Creativity Prescription for Stress Relief

It has been almost a year since I last posted. I have been writing and reading, just not working on this blog as much. I started this blog as a creative outlet, but found myself in a cycle of procrastination and analysis paralysis. I just...

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Mindful Sketches

Yesterday, I posted some thoughts about the book Mindful Sketching by Peggy Dean. So I thought I would share some examples of my attempts at Mindful Sketching. Pausing to observe and reflect away from electronic devices was a great exercise in mindfulness. I quite enjoyed...

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Stone Soup

If I Could Turn Back Time…

Amuck! Halloween Decorating is my Self-Care

This is fine…dealing with stress

The Idea Process

My son recently had to come up with a topic for a coding project for school. He likes to just jump right in, but the teacher is requiring them to journal each day on what they did for the project…which means no throwing the code...

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Thoughts on Creativity…

The obvious answer to who is creative would be artists. Creativity seems to go hand in hand with art, music, and drama. However, creativity is more than simply being artistic or musically inclined. To be creative means that one has the ability to look beyond...

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What a year!

Update from Self-Quarantine —lost count what day…

A-Z Challenge Time!

Just a Little Sunday Morning Jewelry DIY

Crash Course on Creativity in the Workplace