German-language poet Rainer Maria Rilke tells us: “This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?...

Junk mail collage art: Gina Greenlee Creating junk mail art is a great visual art practice if you don’t already have one. It’s the...

No Alarms, Doodling and You at Age 3 Ever notice how kids play? When they make up stories they roll from one idea to the next. Mikey...

“Get the money up front. If they ain’t payin’ your rent, pay them no mind. Play with all the colors in the crayon box. Don’t take life...

Very old ones donated to the library. I read ‘em then play with the images.

Seven years ago I discovered the video game Diner Dash. One night I played four hours. I was enjoying myself, racking up points and...

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Early in my 15 years of living in Connecticut I knew no one, and sought companionship and boredom-free living through personal ad dating....

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The headline comes from journalist Warren Berger’s The Book of Beautiful Questions. The question is intended to find out about conflict...

Ingredients: 1 pound bag of these (frozen): A tub of this: “Zhoug (pronounced ZhOOg) is a cilantro-based sauce/condiment I introduced in...

For nearly 40 years I tried to be something I wasn’t. I had the houses, the vacations, the cute boyfriends, the high-paying corporate...

In April 2000 when I embarked on my solo trip around the world, I didn’t arrange to return to my corporate job at the trip’s conclusion...

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I’ve read Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by journalist Piers Paul Read four times. 1974 (first read) The year it was published I...

From neck to toe. That’s $25, ya’ll. Yes, the shoes and belt, too. When my father died in 2004, the Salvation Army was a tremendous...

I’ve been riding motorbikes since age 14. Now that I live in Florida I ride full time. People are always asking me, “You only have the...

Every day for two years, I listened to the song Proud, the 2001 worldwide hit by Heather Small and M People. When Heather sang the lyric,...

Another year has come and gone miraculous the speed. The voices told me as a child to “Sow desire’s seed.” I answered, “Yes” but planted...