I am a planner to my core. I can envision a dream and believe that it’s possible all day long but if I don’t create a plan to make that vision happen and have a visual representation for the steps I need to take to see
It all unfolded at a new venue to me, involving a stroll up from the Albert Dock, along Jamaica Street towards the city’s Baltic Triangle, taking a more circuitous route than necessary up and down Greenland Street before spotting the spacious but somehow intimate Hangar 34. But while this ...
Friday the 13th, I was to sit down individually with about half of the east coast marketing staff to inform them that they had been laid off. I was sworn to secrecy until the process would begin the following morning. As the Associate Director, I had not really had any ...
myself. It just would have taken me about a month to do each. And that would mean no time for writing. What MJB does is give me the very basic, complete mess, raw materials to create the art from in a day or at worst a week. (The week usually working in the evening, after ...
jotting down poems of my own, and filled several pages. The author is particularly well known as an authority on the Japanese forms of haiku and senryu, and many of the poems in this book follow them. Others are in free verse and a dozen other forms. The collection is structured into...
down long wiggled roads at break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirding wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place . . . ...
The brave promise to go the distance And always listen Through the dark of the night To walk beside you Through every challenge, every bitter fight They’ll stay, they’ll be a light Ever hopeful to the end The mighty get knocked down But they get up again Share this: Twitter Facebook...
You can’t just sit down and write. No, you have to gather all the ingredients, wait for the right hour and use the right instruments to reach the ether and channel inspiration. What this method taught me is that you can’t do much work waiting for circumstances to align. You’re ...
Students study Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and work in groups to create a mural that depicts Dr. King’s vision of peace. Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Words through Diamante Poetry Students explore the ways that powerful and passionate words ...
Eventually, my stubborn brain noticed how much of that “all the time I need” ended up being sucked into the void of my smartphone, how long those journeys down the rabbit hole would last, and how much that contributed to my feeling of my time not being my own. And how often those ...