Month: September 2009

Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain

Big thanks to Judy for the “A creative mind is rarely tidy!” mug that she gave to me. She knows me very well. Have a creative day!

“The breezes tasteOf apple peel.The air is fullOf smells to feel-Ripe fruit, old footballs,Burning brush,New books, erasers,Chalk, and such.The bee, his hive,Well-honeyed hum,And Mother cutsChrysanthemums.Like plates washed cleanWith suds, the daysAre polished withA morning haze.“ John Updike, SeptemberIt’s been a Continue reading Polished with a morning haze→

Thanks to Yvonne for posting this on Facebook this morning. Beautiful. Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

Just thought I’d share one of my favorite cooking sites. Her pictures and recipes inspire me to cook!

Learn young about hard work and manners – and you’ll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it. F. Scott Fitzgerald

To anonymous, the recipe should and now does read two eggs. Sorry for the confusion! I would have emailed you but you didn’t leave me a way to find you.

“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” Winnie the Pooh I worked on creative writing for 8 hours so far this week! It helped that I had four days off in a row thanks to the Continue reading Stopping to think…thoughts on titling a creative work→

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.Edward Gibbon (1737 – 1794)