creative processes

I formerly had a boss at my librarian job who taught me a most valuable lesson and that lesson was to enjoy my job.  She taught me this lesson by setting an example by enjoying her own work and by continually asking me if I was having fun in

Artists who wait for inspiration to strike spend a lot of time waiting.  I know this because I was formerly such an artist.  I believed that I should not force my writing, but that I should let it come to me naturally.  I thought that discipline

In light of the recent, senseless tragedy in Connecticut, I’ve been asking myself the same question many people are asking themselves- What can I do?  I feel powerless. Vacillating between feeling angry at the country’s gun laws and sad