Settle in and make peace with the necessary background work.
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Creative Dissent
There may be no more important effort than to contribute a voice to the vital issues of our time.
The Risk of Creative Exposure
What's a little humiliation if it makes you a better artist?
Chuck Berry and the Inevitability of Rock and Roll, Part 2
Maybe rock and roll was inevitable, with or without Chuck Berry. But the fact remains that he was the one who advanced the state of the art.
Chuck Berry and the Inevitability of Rock and Roll
The drive to integrate different influences in one's life and take them in a new direction; that's what Chuck Berry and others like him had.
Creativity and Age
Keep learning, keep trying, keep experimenting
The Right Tool with Limited Options
Sometimes we have to forge our own path
Brian Wilson and the Foundation of A Song
"What is a song, exactly? It's something that starts as an idea and becomes more than that."
The Little Book of Big Business Ideas
Welcome back to The Creative Life Adventure. This is a brief post that is entirely self-promotional. Hopefully some folks out there will find it interesting. I've written a short book, available in Kindle format from Amazon, called The Little Book of Big Business Ideas. Over the years I've come up with numerous ideas that I…