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Creativity

Filling Your Creative Well

November 4, 2020

Creativity requires that you not only produce creative works, but that you absorb them as well to fill your creative well.

Tags blogging, Creativity, field trip, ideas, writing

Shaping a Book

April 22, 2020

Writing a book is hard work, especially finding the right structure for it.

Tags book proposal, book structure, books, cognitive load, creative writing, Creativity, writing

The Music I Left Behind

February 5, 2020

Long ago I played several musical instruments. Rachel Friedman’s new book is a lens through which to understand why I don’t play any longer.

Tags adult, art, artists, Creativity, french horn, growing up, life choices, music, piano, writing

Writer, Meet Cabin

December 2, 2019July 10, 2019

The writing shed has been a huge success.

Tags creative writing, Creativity, gardening, writing, writing cabin

Why You Should Keep Your Creative Tools Handy

December 2, 2019November 4, 2018

If you’re an artist of any kind, you’re more likely to practice your art if your tools are easy to access.

Tags art, Bernina, Creativity, fabric art, lifestyle, Pfaff, photography, quilting, sewing, tools

The Unpolluted Mind

December 2, 2019September 26, 2018

A few weeks ago my husband sent me an article about how many Instagram users are taking the same photos. The standard photo taken through … Read more

Tags advertising, art, attention, borrowing, creating, Creativity, GPS, ideas, internet, Netflix, remaking, social media, TV

Improve Your Productivity By Making Time for Rest

December 2, 2019March 7, 2018

If you’ve read my blog for a while, you know that, because of my illness, I have limited time in the day to do things … Read more

Tags academia, art, Creativity, disability, editing, productivity, reading, rest, slow scholarship, walking, work, writing

Tips on the Writing Process

December 2, 2019January 31, 2018

It’s been raining for days. The yard has become a marshland, with tufts of grass poking up from pools of standing water. The bedrock outcrop … Read more

Tags advice for writers, amwriting, communication, Creativity, everyday, not writing, practice, rain, river, rules for writing, scicomm, writing

How's Your Inner Life These Days?

December 2, 2019August 23, 2017

Today instead of a Wednesday links post I’ve decided to write a regular post with a few links thrown in. —- Over the past few … Read more

Tags academia, community, Creativity, cycling, eclipse, editing, history, kayaking, landscape, life, nature, outdoors, place, progress, quiet, social media, thinking, writing

Wednesday on the Web: 12 July Edition

December 2, 2019July 12, 2017

BC Wildfires As you can imagine, much of my reading in the past week has focused on the wildfires in BC. I wrote a post … Read more

Tags BC wildfire, cdnsci, Creativity, grizzly bear, salmon, starting again, transitions, west, wildfires, writing, writing process
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This afternoon the #BCWildfire Service will be supporting Cook's Ferry Indian Band in the completion of the Murray Creek prescribed burn on Shawniken IR. This project was originally set to begin last week but was cancelled due to shifting winds.

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