Living a creative life
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. Earlier this year, I made a decision that involved what I call "jumping off a cliff." I left my conventional day job for a life of free-lance writing and photography. There was (and still is) a lot of risk involved, but my personal risk isn't the subject of…
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. I've been reading Dr. Maxwell Maltz's 1960 book Psycho-Cybernetics. While the book occasionally strays into the neighborhood I call "crackpottery," there is a lot of useful information. I'm not a fan of the term "self-help," but it's the term that's commonly accepted, so we'll go with that. If…
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. I've been on a brief summer hiatus. My wife and I were fortunate enough to spend a little time in the beautiful city of Montreal. While I get back in the swing of things, I wanted to share something we encountered while climbing two long flights of stairs…
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. I'll acknowledge up front that I'm not a sports fan. I'm not a sports fan to such an extent that I would barely know the difference between a 5-iron and a cricket bat. However, I appreciate that athletics have a lot in common with the creative arts. Success…
It's the time of year when schools all over are sending new graduates into the world. Even though it has been centuries years since I graduated from college, this time of year always calls to mind some of my favorite advice for graduates. Most people first heard this as the Baz Luhrman production "Everybody's Free…
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. I'm in the middle of reading a collection of some of Vincent Van Gogh's letters, primarily letters he wrote to his brother Theo over a period of 18 years. It's a fascinating body of work. Van Gogh wrote so many letters that they end up providing a sort…
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. I'm not a big sports fan, but I do love the 1986 movie "Hoosiers." On the surface, it's about a high school basketball team and a coach with a troubled past. Of course, like all good films, it's about interesting characters, their relationships, and the choices they make.…
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. As a movie buff, at some point in my life I began collecting movie quotes. It has become something of an obsession with me. I have a database of well over 1,000 now, and try to get a "keeper" from every film I watch. The rule is, stand-alone…
Uncertainty is hard-wired into the creative experience.
All the planning in the world can't guarantee a future outcome.
The Creative Life Adventure 