mobileme on the cheap(er)

Monday, July 7th, 2008

You, like me, might be angling toward a MobileMe membership. We already have a .Mac account, but with iPhone 2.0 coming out later this week, I'm realizing that a family pack will be useful for the two iPhones in our house. Amazon has the .Mac family pack for $120 while ...

a whack on the side of the head

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

As I mentioned (or threatened) earlier, here is the second part of our tour stop for the Post2Post virtual book tour. I'd like to share with you some of my experience as I read A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative. Whack is ...

q&a with roger von oech

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Today, we are the tour stop for the Post2Post virtual book tour. I'm honored to be hosting Roger von Oech, author of the new revised and updated A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative. I'll be posting some thoughts on my own experience with ...

reading journal

Friday, June 6th, 2008

I'm an avid reader. I set a goal each year to read an average of a book a week. I enjoy reading, but it is also a discipline of creative work. Ideas rarely initiate out of nowhere. Some of my most creative thoughts cascade out of other ideas, and reading ...

post2post tour

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

I'm excited that Creativityist is going to be a stop on the Post2Post virtual book tour two weeks from today. We will be interacting with Roger von Oech about the re-release of his classic work on creativity: A Whack on the SIde of the Head. Here's the rundown of the tour ...

some love for my kindle

Monday, March 10th, 2008

While traveling the past few weeks, I read The Starfish and the Spider for a research project I have due later this month. I read it on my Amazon Kindle. The Kindle experience is turning out to be all I hoped it would -- other than having to turn it ...

lazy saturday links - 02.23.08

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Some of my favorite links on creativity and workflow from the interweb this week: Frozen Grand Central (YouTube) - Improv Everywhere creates a scene at Grand Central. How to Schedule Your Writing Like a Professional Writer (Study Hacks) - Some helpful tips to make writing a regular part of your way of ...

creativity loves company

Monday, February 18th, 2008

I read Ethan Watters' Urban Tribes in 2005. While I thought the book was interesting, what stuck with me most was the realm in which the book was written. Ethan Watters is one of the co-founders of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. It is a shared "office for the creative ...

creativity begets creativity

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Two elemental fears sabotage my creative process time and again. The first fear is that my creative expressions won't be received well by others. It would take many blog entries (and hours of therapy) to unravel that fear. That's not what this blog entry is about...I'm afraid no one would want ...

getting things created

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch I am enamored with the concept behind this quote. In this age of information, it is commonly concluded that the chief role of the human brain is to remember and store all that information ...