Living Creatively

Last summer we opened up the wall between our living room and what's now kind of like a sub-living-room, or a den. Our 90-year-old Craftsmen bungalow feels much more airy and open now, and I've enjoyed the excuse to redecorate these two front rooms (and no, I don't mean to imply that we've actually...
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A couple of weeks ago an idea pounced on me while I was riding the bus home at night. The kind of idea that led me to run home from the bus stop and have a domain registered and half a website built before I went to bed. I've written about intentionally making ugly crafts...
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Over at Make and Meaning today, Diane posted a video of Jamie Oliver talking about the mission he's on to use his creativity as a chef (and the visibility he's gained) to educate people about food so they can live more healthfully. It's an outstanding talk, well worth twenty minutes of your time. Diane asks, What...
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I thought a couple weeks into 2010 I'd do a little wrap-up of 2009. It was, after all, a fairly unusual year for me. Also, I've neglected my pal the bulleted list and I feel I owe him a big one. (Wee note: I've gone and put a new theme on the blog, so poke...
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I'm exceedingly pleased with myself. Not generally comfortable making long-term plans, I started out 2009 – my hiatus year; you know, the one I'd use to figure out what I want to do next – with one goal: to end up working doing something fascinating, with good people and not for a big company I'd...
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Remember back in February when I went to the Northern Voice blogging conference and I said the only good things about it were the keynotes, one of the sessions, and hanging out with a couple of cool people? One of those people was my friend Zak. I know Zak through Mandy Moore (and, by...
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An unexpected and thoroughly delightful side effect of quitting my job last year is that right after I did it I managed to get know some incredibly cool people whose work I'd admired from afar for a long time. I really don't know how or why it happened; maybe cutting myself free somehow opened...
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For the second day in a row, I woke up this morning to discover I'm 33 years old. Yesterday, my first day at 33, I woke up at 6AM like a kid on Christmas morning if that kid happens to celebrate Christmas and also happens to be really jacked up about what the day might...
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So the first four months of my yearlong amorphous adventure have passed and I thought I'd explore what I did with myself, what I'd planned to do with myself, what I'm doing now and what I might do next. If you're unfamiliar with all this, I'll sum up: I quit my job at the end...
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Repeat after me: Frustration is useless, boredom is toxic, if I'm not having fun I should be doing something else. The lovely Rachel posted about my double-crochet tutorial on the CRAFT blog today, and I thank her for the link love (welcome, if you're here via CRAFT!). She wrote in her post that I switched...
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