“I have a big dream list that now has over 200 items. I hadn’t looked at in five years, until very recently. When I looked at it, I discovered that about forty things on that list I’d done… without even
Last Friday I attended an event at the Vancouver Writer’s Fest called ‘Belonging.’ The event featured four writers (and their memoirs): Brian Bett, Charles Demers, Camilla Gibb, and Michael V. Smith. At the end of this entry, you can find
“I’ve never had too much doubt when it came to my voice, but it’s different with songwriting. There are lots of times when I’ve second guessed myself, or become very conscious to the point when the first time I’d perform
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My Creative Muse Is from … New Jersey? (A Reflection on ‘Big Magic’ by Elizabeth Gilbert) by Lisa A. Beach When I think of people who inspire creativity, I instinctively look to deceased greats in their field, like Georgia O’Keeffe,
My Cup of Coffee With Fear by Diana Carson-Walker I was talking to a friend of mine a few months ago, and I found myself trying to explain my (apparently) deep-seated anxiety that rears its head all day long. Generally,
A Failure Story by Lauren Donnelly I fell in love with acting at an early age. As a child, I was attracted to acting because it promised to make real the imaginary worlds I could enter vicariously through books and
“Rather than saying ‘I hope I’m successful in five years’ – Which essentially doesn’t mean anything. Everyone hopes that. – I break my dreams down into smaller dreams. That might seem mundane, but this dream minutiae has helped me a
Artists in the Modern Age by Eva Lewarne Andy Warhol said that he would like to be a machine. I think Andy Warhol, with his iconization of mass media images, tried to kill painting and art in his glorification of
I was drowning in a sea of misconceptions about what an artist was, what an artist did, and who could play a part in the cultural life of our time… “- Marsha Norman Julia Cameron refers to creativity as “spiritual
“I remember as a child sort of zoning out. I think that’s a meditation. Our minds become free. They become un-tethered. I think it’s a natural state of being.” I met Diana at a workshop for understanding your emotions (led