E. Paul Torrance’s Creative Manifesto

Today I begin teaching one of my favorite courses: Creative Thinking. What does it mean to be creative? That might seem like a simple question, but it’s one worth asking because the answer may be more complex than we first realize. Is it just coloring outside the lines (or coloring prettily inside the lines)? Is …

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Random Sunday Musings

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“[E]verything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ~ Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning Happy Sunday, everyone! I woke up to an unexpected inner calm this morning. Is it because I was …

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Fearless Writing: Running Toward the Dog

“[I]ronically, the woman who appears well adapted may be the one who has simply become most comfortable being governed by her fears, while the ‘neurotic’ one is still gamely struggling to reach fearlessness.” ~ Becoming Fearless, Arianna Huffington Serendipity. My favorite word of all time. It happened a couple of times this week. First, on …

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Bookmarkable! 25. 11. 7. 4.

It’s Bookmarkable Friday! Don’t worry. You don’t have to stretch your brain to figure out what the next number is in the sequence. 🙂 The following bookmarkable blogs are strictly by the numbers. Enjoy! Top 25 Reasons Submissions Are Rejected This post from The Blood Red Pencil is from last September, but I just discovered …

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Annie Proulx on the Joyous Task of Writing

“In the long unfurling of his life, from tight-wound kid hustler in a wool suit riding the train out of Cheyenne to geriatric limper in this spooled-out year, Mero had kicked down thoughts of the place where he began, a so-called ranch on strange ground at the south hinge of the Big Horns.” The above …

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