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A collection of 5 posts

Imagination as Escapism; Imagination as Exploration

I’ve always had an active imagination; I was the kid who could be left alone in my room for hours, totally immersed in whatever story I had concocted for my My Little Ponies. But when I went through some trauma in middle school, imagination filled a new role for

My New Guitar -- and the Importance of Writing it Down

Last night, my dad and my sister presented me with a new guitar they had made as a belated birthday present. My dad did the assembly and staining, and my sister did the woodburned artwork. The photos don’t do it justice, but she took kind of a “collage” approach,

Creativity ... Where Does it Come From? (Thanks, Dad)

For Christmas, my dad created a custom guitar shaped like a rifle for my brother-in-law to display in his gun shop. The custom guitar was a work of art in itself. But while he was building it, he took video and then edited a series of YouTube videos about the

call for submissions

Submission Opportunity: Writing about Mental Illness

My sister recently alerted me to this call for creative writing submissions around the theme of depression and mental illness: The National Network of Depression Centers is seeking art for an exhibition at our NNDC Annual Conference September 28-29, 2009 The National Network of Depression Centers is seeking art for

Creativity and the Collective Consciousness

Josh McDonald, creator of the Ask Rachel comic, recently noted that, on the same day that I wrote about Christianity and sex at the Young Adult Catholics blog, he was also exploring the topic in Ask Rachel. We’ve all had experiences like this; we’re writing a brilliant novel