As someone who has always been creative, I used to find myself really frustrated. I knew I was creative, but I wasn't always creating. I compared myself a lot to people who were doing cool, interesting, creative work (thank you, internet) and very often felt like, why am I not doing that? The answer was complicated because I was doing that. I was being creative in my regular, everyday life. I took lots of photographs, I wrote essays, I did craft projects. I read a lot about creativity and …
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Being Bored and Brilliant
Last week's Bored and Brilliant podcasts from New Tech City really have me thinking. So much so that I spent most of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday offline with my phone out of reach. The only exceptions were a photo I snapped and posted on Instagram and communicating with my book club via Facebook. The rest of the weekend was spent working, reading, watching movies with my kiddos, and exercising. The goal of the Bored and Brilliant series was to provide a week's worth of challenges to help …
Just Start (and Some Thoughts on Blogging)
When I was deciding whether or not to start blogging again, I kept coming up against this idea: Just start. I saw it all over the place, heard it in podcasts, felt it inside me, whispering. Go on, already. Just start. And though I'd like to say that it was just that simple, there was actually a lot of hemming and hawing involved. I had purchased a domain and web hosting for my photography business, but I couldn't seem to get things into place. And since I had already shelled out the money, I …