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Halloween Candy

Bulk up for Halloween with your favorite chocolate candy.


Halloween Stories
Halloween

C. Turnage, PhD

The Old Foamy Adventure

Every city has its own urban legends.


Foreshadow

ADVENTure #9

Foreshadow Card

Halls Deck™ history.

Soul-etry

Home

Art and writing prompts to bring you home

My heart's true home is on Venus. I want to fly away free. I will live in a sparrow's nest and call the raven my brother, the sky my sister, the wind my home. The jackdaw knows my real name and all the crickets are singing.

My true home is the moment before a thunderstorm breaks over the plains, air electric and green with an eldritch light. Dusk draws out long and long in the north in the summertime.

Listen — mama is calling me in before it gets too dark, her voice the first voice I ever heard. She was my first home, but I drifted away. Absinthe sends me sailing on an indigo midnight voyage in a fragile origami boat. I am rocked to sleep by moonlight and the sweet tender whispers of young girls.


Spotlight

Art by Angela Blaha

Angela Blaha

The power of negative space

We tend to look at what fills the canvas — the strokes of color, the images that emerge, the story the artist places before us. But just as powerful, and often overlooked, is what is not there. Negative space — the unpainted, the empty, the in-between — isn't absence at all. It is presence in disguise.

Musing

9 Greek Muses

Molly Anderson

Invoking the 9 Greek Muses

The original nine Athenian muses were the nine sister Goddesses of Imagination, Inspiration, and The Arts in ancient Greek mythology. Many cultures have celebrated, worshiped, and tried to entice the Muses: Calliope · Clio · Erato · Euterpe · Melpomene · Polymnia · Terpsichore · Thalia · Urania


Genius habits

Creativity 101

James C. Kaufman, PhD

Is Football Coaching Creative?

Plays that involve investment and risk.

funmire

Snakecycle

funmire

Why does Positive Playfullness matter?

The return on investment pays for itself.

Strategies

Friedman's sketch

Donald M. Rattner

Creativity Tactic #40

Pick up a pencil.


Inspiring Art

Joy Sikorski

Joy Sikorski

Whimsical drawing lessons

From How to Draw a Clam and Squeaky Chalk.

Essay

Perfect Personal Essay

Nancy Slonim Aronie

Crafting the story only you can write

Write in a way that moves, connects, and resonates.

Writing

Erasmus

Estelle Erasmus

Writing that gets noticed

Get your essay writing ideas flowing and seen.


Interact

Swing into creative play

Chris Dunmire

Swing into creative play!

18 Mini-golf brain-stretchers.

Creativity Coaching

Collage

Jill Allison Bryan

Garden Variety Overwhelm and Lowering Expectations

How small seeds of creativity grow into big things.

Teaching children

Fostering Creativity in Children

Abby Connors

Finding the Beauty of Burnout

When you teach young children.


Art-making

Collage Cubies

Chris Dunmire

Collage Cubies: Innovative 3D Paper Art

Free cubie templates to get you started!

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Draw a kitty cat

From How to Draw a Radish.

People

Profiles of Creative Empowerment

Hedy Lamarr

Patent Beauty, Patent Invention

A Hollywood starlet in a luminescent observatory has waited for the exact moment to enter the spotlight.

Printables

Swing into creative play

Chris Dunmire

Swing into creative play!

18 mini-golf brain-stretchers. Play now!


Writing

Funny Fingers

Matthew Dicks

Storytelling: How to Be Funny

Humor is an exceptionally powerful tool in communication.

Deeper

SoulCollage

SoulCollage®

Inner critic

Is it sabotaging you?

Muses

Melpomene

9 Greek muses

Melpomene

A guide for the lost.