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While experimenting with my gatherings, and even in comments on this blog, I often get asked, “Does this count as creative?” My usual answer is something along the lines of “Hey, why not?”, just for the sake of brevity. But here’s my long answer, in case this is something you’ve been pondering too. [...] You may have been highly distressed by the fact that possibly noticed that a couple weeks have passed since my last post. Oh yes, friends, I’ve been up to stuff. I wish I could say that I was busy doing wild and crazy creative things the entire time. Or at least say that I [...] This time last year, I was celebrating my 30th birthday. It was an eventful day, and not just because I had officially entered my 30s. There was a hilarious victory, a hilarious defeat, and a delicious meal. In that order. Oh yes, and I should mention that I was in an unnamed Sicilian town [...] Oh, my sweet blog, how I have missed you. Yes, of course I should let you know when I’m going to disappear for a few days, but alas, I never know when the desire to disappear is going to strike. Such is the way of us annoying creative types. Next time I’ll try to [...] I took another break from blogging this past week in order to deal with some more fun bureaucratic tomfoolery. Because around here, taxes don’t take a day, but a week to file. Or two. And this brings me to my story. Or stories, I should say. Here, a lot of your filing and enthusiastic [...] I’ve been living in Italy for over 9 years now but there is one very beloved Italian practice that I can’t quite seem to get the hang of: dolce far niente. The literal translation is “sweet doing nothing” but maybe the best translation is “sweet idleness.” I used to be able to do this. [...] This is sort of cheating, because it’s not really me being creative. But it’s so creative that I felt as if I had to share it with you all. My contribution can be the photographs and the translation. Yesterday I was out walking and came upon this sad spectacle: Aw, poor bike. This [...] Ah yes, my fellow Northern Hemispherians, good news: summer is upon us. Summer is one of my favorite seasons, and not just because recent studies have confirmed that more cool people are born in the summer than in any other season.* There are loads of reasons to love summer: 1. Longer days and more [...] Now before anyone accuses me of “discouraging people” and “saying bad words in blog post titles”*, let me explain. When I first started writing this blog, I had to come up with an image for a header. What actually happened was I totally procrastinated until the last minute made a conscious decision to do [...] Recently I’ve been having fun sketching some of my mascots. And just noticing how many mascots I have. Sheesh. This here ceramic frog hangs out in our bathroom, on the little shelf below our mirror. He’s one of several frogs I’m just noticing inhabit our house. But he’s by far the biggest – [...] |
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