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10/27/25
Banana Bats: A Haunted Harvest
Halloween pick a story path.
10/20/25
The Cultivation of Carrotus scareotus
Carrotus scareotus is a hybrid root vegetable, typically orange, but sometimes with a yellow tinge.
Gen X's Undying Love for Classic Halloween Candy
A poll of the worse Halloween candy ever + Halloween Candy puzzle.
'Take One' Halloween
Double the fun! Printable Halloween candy word search puzzle + story find.
Halloween Telltale
Solve the story hide 'n seek.
The Cryptic Costume Contest
Can you help Lila Hargrave find her next clue?
The Enchanted Mirror
What can you decipher by watching the emerging figures on the enchanted mirror?
How to Draw a Pumpkin
The shapes of things.
10/16/25
Art as an act of time travel
Art opens time in ways we rarely pause to notice.
10/6/25
Creativity flourishes in the HSP
Sensitive by nature, creative by design.
10/1/25
Dream as muse
Every dream, and every dreamer, is unique.
9/22/25
The chaotic muse
Relocating your creative life.
Coming home
What exactly is it, this place or concept of home?
9/20/25
The five-minute muse
For busy creatives (who isn't?).
9/13/25
9 Greek muses
Calliope
Muse of epic poetry.
9 Greek muses
Clio
Muse of history, education, and knowledge.
9 Greek muses
Erato
Muse of sensual poetry.
9 Greek muses
Euterpe
Muse of lyric poetry and music.
9 Greek muses
Melpomene
A guide for the lost.
9 Greek muses
Polymnia
Muse of sacred song, oratory, lyric poetry
9 Greek muses
Terpsichore
Muse of music and dance.
9 Greek muses
Thalia
Muse of comedy, humor, and laughter.
9 Greek muses
Urania
Muse of Astronomy, astrology, and universal love.
9/12/25
The power of negative space
The paradoxical nature of pauses in art and life.
8/31/25
Da Vinci's Dimostrazione: Leaping into your experiences
Challenging long-standing beliefs and opinions.
Da Vinci's Sensazione: Awakening your senses
Continuous refinement of the five senses.
Da Vinci's Sfumato: Opening to Experience
Embracing ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
8/27/25
Kung Fu Drawing: Art & Martial Art Parallels
Five similarities between art and martial arts.
7 Drawing tips to continuous improvement
Fun, inspiring, and forgiving methods to use in your cartoon art.
How to draw cartoons
Cartoons are simplified versions of things we see in real life.
8/25/25
Leonardo da Vinci's Genius habit: Curiosita
Being curious about everything.
8/26/25
Cartoonist & Martial Artist Jeff Scarterfield
Creative careers in the arts.
Kung Fu Drawing: Art & Martial Art Parallels
Five similarities between art and martial arts.
7 Drawing tips to continuous improvement
Fun, inspiring, and forgiving methods to use in your cartoon art.
How to draw cartoons
Cartoons are simplified versions of things we see in real life.
8/22/25
Joy Sikorski's whimsical drawing lessons
From How to Draw a Clam and Squeaky Chalk.
8/15/25
The myth of the lightning bolt
What real creative revelation looks like.
8/10/25
Connessione: Seeing the Interconnectedness in Everything
Using the larger picture to your advantage.
8/9/25
Two neighbors
Anecdote for what ails ya.
8/8/25
Left and Right Brain: Which Side Are You On?
The power of mind mapping techniques.
8/3/25
Christmas ADVENTures
25+ Days of twisted, challenging, silly, prompt-filled fun.
8/2/25
Corporalita: Taking Care of the Body
Cultivating grace, ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
8/1/25
Arte/Scienza: Using Both Sides of the Brain
Mind-mapping da Vinci-style.
7/25/25
Why Study Creativity?
Can creativity be measured?
Creativity and Mysticism
The history of creativity research started with mysticism.
Studying Workplace Creativity
Research or pop psychology?
Defining a Creative Person
Who do you conjure up?
Are Plagiarizing Animals Creative?
The framework for animal creativity.
Is Football Coaching Creative?
Plays that involve investment and risk.
Is Creativity Indefinable?
The many different ways in which someone can be creative.
7/23/25
Counting on numbers
Where does the stream flow?
7/20/25
Math grave
The place where subtracted, reduced, and rounded numbers end up.
PUN-ish
Silly string for the brain.
7/18/25
DeMYTHstifying creative blocks
Why you're not making art.
How your thoughts and habits block your creativity
Pattern recognition.
7/15/25
Who first studied genius?
Geniuses have been around since the Egyptian Imhotep.
Psychometric studies of genius
Became well established by the middle of the 20th century.
Where the edge lives
More than just being creative.
Improve team creativity
Stimulate more interaction, idea sharing, and on-the-job creativity.
Good relationships improve creative output
R&D research.
Using linear & non-linear ideas
Combining old ideas into new and useful ones.
Listening to new ideas at work
Giving honest opinions without spoiling creative thinking.
7/2/25
Improve your creative output
By improving your ideas.
Art finds beauty in detours
Amy Oestreicher's story.
7/1/25
Idea-generating brainwriting techniques
Dream interruption, clustering brainwriting, and brainwriting circles.
Identifying new products
In creativity & innovation meetings.
6/30/25
The Great Creativity Illuminator
Enlightening perspectives to help light your pathway.
Elementary Educator Abby Connors
Creativity and child development perspectives from Richard Feynman, Robert Henri, Pablo Picasso, and E. Paul Torrance.
6/28/25
ICAF Founder Ashfaq Ishaq
Harnessing children's imagination for positive social change.
On the Importance of Creativity
Creativity is a quintessential attribute of human beings.
Children + Creativity = Peace
The Arts Olympiad program helps children overcome the "4th grade slump."
6/24/25
International Child Art Foundation's Ashfaq Ishaq
How the vision for ICAF unfolded.
2010 Interview Archives
Creative careers in the arts.
6/24/25
Habits managers need to change to help creativity
Many managers are unaware that their own habits can lower creativity at work.
6/17/25
Interview with Composer Joseph Dillon Ford
Founder of The Delian Society, an organization for musicians worldwide interested in tonal music.
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Updated.
Can government be truly creative and innovative?
Some people in government want to foster more creativity and innovation.
6/13/25
The middle space
When your creative voice shifts and refuses to be who it was.