Make Something: Pens
Making something with pens is easy for a writer. But today I felt more like playing than writing. Plus, I have a brand new package of fine-tip Sharpies. What better […]
Making something with pens is easy for a writer. But today I felt more like playing than writing. Plus, I have a brand new package of fine-tip Sharpies. What better […]
At last! Three weeks into the year of making things, I encountered a storytelling assignment. “Write a ten-word love story,” prompts Noah Scalin in 365: A Daily Creativity Journal. I […]
Oh, Noah Scalin, you are hitting all my sensitivities so early in this year of making 365 somethings. For this 9th day, the creative journal suggests making something with your […]
Today’s marching orders were to “transform an old book into something new by cutting, folding, gluing, and so on.” I know about altered books. I’ve seen beautiful examples, and I’ve […]
My year of poetry is complete. What next? I’m inviting family, friends, and “strangers” (is there any such thing, really?) into Just 99 Days of experimenting with daily practice. Will […]
Day 351 prompt: The Letter N (a haiku) nimble needle nods noodling Norma’s nifty novel narratives
Day 348 prompt: Abstract in the visual arts painters have latitude to merely suggest an idea no need for realism or true perspective or accurate depiction writers strive for more precision telling […]
Day 338 prompt: Letters in Nature (an acrostic poem) Nature’s Artful Textures Unleash Rejoicing Everywhere
Day 319 prompt: Primary Colors primary colors may be few only red and yellow and blue even five-year-olds will hush given just these paints and brush mixing up these basic three […]
Day 250 prompt: The Letter H (a haiku) happily honing her heart’s habitual hum: humorous haikus
Day 244 prompt: The Arts Dancer Muscle and rhythm And space to let them move Carver Chisel and knife And block to cut away Painter Brush and color And surface to […]
Day 231 prompt: Contemporary (a haiku) bold and minimal once snubbed as cold and sterile now sublime order
Day 230 prompt: Pastel suburban evening running errands driving toward the sunset small, clear voice from the back seat observes the sky brushed in broad strokes of pastel at the stoplight […]
Paul, our wood carving brother, brought thought and ideas to our discussion of the prompt “garden.” “When I think about garden and my carving, I go right to a Grinling […]
Garden Gift My parents gave me a garden. The plot by the door of daily passage Became my floral cutting bed. My parents bought me books, Containers, Floral frogs and […]