People are still going to give. But we can revolutionize the way we think about giving. What about the giving that comes from ourselves?
Margot Rogers | Posted 12.17.2008 | Living
Sure, we'd all love to have a book published. But few of us really want to expend the energy. And even fewer are lucky enough to have afflatus!
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 12.16.2008 | Living
Solstice = Standing-Still-Sun Dec. 21st, we enter the belly of the night. Winter Solstice: We come to the portal that separates darkness from li...
Randall Bourscheidt | Posted 12.11.2008 | Living
The Obama administration should devote a portion of the new jobs program to matching this local investment in the arts infrastructure. The immediate gain in jobs will lead to the long-term benefit of stronger communities.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 12.10.2008 | Living
Check a good novel out of the library, turn off the phone and curl up with it. There's nothing wrong with disappearing into fiction for a while. Stay with fiction, though.
Andy Burnham | Posted 12.04.2008 | World
International debate has not kept pace with the speed of technological change and globalization. We need businesses and governments that have a much stronger understanding of the creative process.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 12.03.2008 | Living
Dorothea Brande was an American writer and editor, well known for her books Wake Up and Live and Becoming a Writer (a useful resource for writers, by ...
Dr. R. Keith Sawyer | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
The most exciting creativity in politics comes from the people. All of us decide what is important, what we want, and how we want to get there. Creativity to the people!
Lee Stranahan | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics
Like everyone, my reasons for deciding who I'm voting for are personal and so are my videos. I'm not trying to tick off campaign talking points and I'm not speaking for anybody but myself.
Janice Taylor | Posted 10.06.2008 | Style
The process of thinking through these six hats can help you to create six distinct approaches; six new points of view. The more we stretch our thinking, the more likely we are to succeed.
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 09.29.2008 | Living
Okay, so I know that sounds like a gimmick. If anyone could get rich automatically through sleeping, we'd all be filthy wealthy after a few priorities...
Janice Taylor | Posted 09.24.2008 | Living
Five years ago, almost to the day, after permanently removing (if you lose it; you will find it) over 50 pounds of body clutter (a.k.a. fat), decades ...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.21.2008 | Living
I live in the most ordinary American household - I live alone. Knock on any door in the nation and you are more likely to find a household like mine t...
New York Times | Benedict Carey | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living
Boredom is more than a mere flagging of interest or a precursor to mischief. Some experts say that people tune things out for good reasons, and that o...
Tracey Hecht | Posted 05.21.2008 | Entertainment
The really amazing thing about making Life in Flight was watching it go from a private experience of conceptualization to a hugely collaborative experience.
John S. Johnson | Posted 05.20.2008 | Business
There are many powerful forces in our culture that aren't comfortable with real freedom. They believe in the "free market," but not in marketing freedom of thought. They love it as a slogan in a speech, but not when it is put into practice.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.15.2008 | Living
The War of Art, written by a guy who bounced from coast to coast 13 times from age twenty-four to thirty-two, can help us blow through the barriers and become the creators we really are.
Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business
We are so afraid of randomness that we are willing to pay exorbitant fees to ivy-league educated Wall Street suits to tell us "if xyz happens then you should buy abc."
Jennie Nash | Posted 01.29.2008 | Living
People who are not engaged daily in conscious creative acts, like to believe that creativity is something that strikes like lightening from God.
Erica Jong | Posted 10.11.2007 | Media
They could have given it to Philip Roth for paeans to his penis. But, amazingly, the Nobel committee decided to recognize a woman writer whose work has opened up the female soul to literary scrutiny.
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Mary Lou Song | Posted 12.19.2008 | Living