Poetry for Dogs
My book, Throw Me A Bone: Poetry For Dogs, includes 31 poems written purportedly for a canine audience.
It’s available on Amazon — http://poetryfordogs.com — and priced to generate funds for three humane societies. (Writing poetry is not my get-rich-quick scheme, not a pyramid of dogs with you at the bottom. No.)
How To Memorize — And Why
Last week, I finally passed a substantial memorization test. Since 2008, I've been in five theatrical productions. Each one required me to learn lines. Memorization Has Never Come Easily.I'm not a natural memorizer. I prefer to wing it, relying on wit and...
Toward A Creative New Year, part 1
Yesterday, the Kiwanis Club of Columbus was kind enough to have me as their lunchtime speaker. The topic: three ideas for making 2011 the most creative year possible. Here's what I said. Before reading on, you may help yourself to a two-page worksheet I've...
It’s About Us, Here, Now.
Charles Dickens wrote to change England. (If you don't want to read, just check out the video trailer to my next show.) And he did, many times, in many ways, with many stories. He wrote truth to power — felling abusive institutions and unkind traditions. A...
Going Below The Rim
Greetings from Tucson, Arizona. Today, we finish our provisioning and packing. Tomorrow, we'll drive six hours to the South Rim. Monday, we'll hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and, finally, sleep on the Canyon floor amid the daunting wilderness....
“No Problem.”
I've been spending too much — or not enough — time with humans lately. Or maybe I'm becoming older faster than I'm becoming wiser. In any case: dang. "No Problem!"I just can't get my arms around the way people talk these days. My biggest...
Creativity In Your Life
A couple weeks ago, I enjoyed spending the day talking with 300 people at the Columbus Museum of Art about creativity. The program — called Creativity In Your Life — was about just that. It was an exhilarating day for me: more than five hours of instruction and...
Feed Your Soul
Join me, company members of Available Light Theatre, and a special guest for the second annual Feed Your Soul fundraiser and one-night-only performance this Saturday, October 16, 2010 from 6 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Proceeds support Available Light's "Pay...
Do It Yourself
For years, I've assigned my Personal Creativity and Innovation students at Ohio State's Fisher College of Business the large job of planning their own creative development. Why? Because, after we graduate, we still remain students. In fact, we also become our...
Mim, What Do You Do To Stay Creative?
I'm going to ask some creative people what they do to stay creative. And I'm going to try to capture it on camera. And — if I can work all this technology — I'm going to show you what they say. Let's Start With MimMimi Brodskey Chenfeld has encouraged...
Creativity with Ann Fisher
I just love talking with Ann Fisher on her All Sides With Ann Fisher. When we talk, I'm forced to codify my thinking. Ann has been on air for 54 weeks now and folks are really tuning in.Here's our conversation yesterday on creativity, thanks to...
