Category: creativity

  • It was author Tom Robbins — Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues — who first hinted to me that a novel can do anything. Really. Any thing. His books are funny, insightful and light on their toes. After finishing reading any of them, I understood I was reading for the journey, not the…

  • I think of the Canadian artists known as the Group of Seven in the same way I think of the Hudson River School, the artists who romanticized the stunning iconic landscapes of the United States in the 19th Century. Think Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole. The Group of Seven were also landscape painters, but working…

  • My longtime friend and artist Stephanie Barrow spent last year making videos about making art. She made a commitment to herself to do it and she followed through. I love that. Today she posted a video about what she learned from a year of meeting that personal commitment. Besides the window into her vibrant art…