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Our Creative Selves October Starts Now

Starting tomorrow, Saturday October 1st, 2022, I’ll be hosting a week-long creativity challenge on Instagram called Our Creative Selves October which will run through October 7th. I’ve already had a number of people chime in to say they want to join in the fun. Any creativity is welcome. It could be writing or knitting or…

100 Day Project and the Final Countdown: Days 76 through 100
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100 Day Project and the Final Countdown: Days 76 through 100

I started out this year’s project feeling very clever. As I was a television and film major, I thought that the words and pictures would be a great way to combine both sides of my brain. And I bought myself a new toy to play with, the Kodak polaroid camera and printer. That was a…

Today was the day I Lost It: Backstory Part Two of the #28DayComeWhatMayProject
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Today was the day I Lost It: Backstory Part Two of the #28DayComeWhatMayProject

What I haven’t explained is that at the same time I started this project, I was switching up on my anti-anxiety medicine. I was excited in fact to begin Wellbutrin instead of the Lexipro which I was certain had been the very reason I’d gained the weight and couldn’t get rid of it. Read the…

The 100 Day Project 2022: Days 26 through 51
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The 100 Day Project 2022: Days 26 through 51

In my previous post, the first 25 days of the 100-day project 2022, I spoke about the technical tasks and difficulties of this project medium. Getting the polaroid printer to behave and all the applications that it takes me to deliver these little thought pictures. As for the thoughts I write, they are often harder…

First Two Weeks of Our Creative March 2020
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First Two Weeks of Our Creative March 2020

(I am republishing this piece from two years ago, March ’20, because the theme to this creative challenge is still pertinent to us today. In all of these posts I am reminded that we need to continue to value our creative contributions.) As I explained thoroughly in this post, A Creativity Challenge for March 2020,…