Category: Authors
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Dear Creative: Spring Being #20.2025
Happy Friday! Today is the last Friday in April. Why that matters, I’m not sure except we will never get this moment again. With that, I want to remind us to stay the course, to write, to draw, to paint, to sing, to be creative. Throughout the weekend, let’s take time to pause and enjoy…
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Dear Creative Friends. Greater Love. #19.2025
Dear Creative Friends, I started to write you a letter saying, Happy Easter, and calling it a day. But I thought better of it after reading this passage during my devotional. The text in the book of John 15 verse 13 states, “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for…
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Short Note
Dearest Creative, Sometimes I don’t have to share so much, especially when you may be marinating on my letter from last week. Therefore, I am sending you an abbreviated note that still flows over with inspiration. I hope. My wish is that you find beauty in every moment and the blessing of creativity in every…
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Dear Creative: Use Your Brain—Your Whole Brain, #17.2025
Dear Creative, I hope you are swimming in the sweet spot of right-brain creativity and left-brain refinement today. If not, I hope this letter helps you find the right balance, as successful artists often do in their creative process. While neuroscience has moved away from oversimplifying the right-brain and left-brain dichotomies, there is still too…
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Stay Happy. File Taxes #16.2025
Dear Creatives, Happy Friday! In today’s short yet sweet letter, my main aim is to remind you to file your taxes. And try not to pull your hair out as you shuffle through the process. “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” – Albert Einstein. Yes. Even the brilliant, Nobel…
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Spring into Settings, #15. 2025
Happy First Day of Spring, Creatives! The sun is shining. But it’s 46 degrees outside. That’s more than sweater weather for me. I wish I was more outdoorsy but I’m not. I’m a true-blue creature of air-conditioned comfort. I do enjoy my screened lanai. Three-walls and a screen in between work for me. I can…
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Practice, Practice, Practice, Like the Greats #14. 2025
Dear Creative, How are you? I don’t want to interrupt your practice to become the best creative you can be, so I am repurposing my last letter to you. Finding the time and means to apply what works best for your work is worth any extra effort or time required. Leo Tolstoy, one of the…
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How Practicing Like the Greats Might Make You Great. #13. 2025
Dear Creative, Quick question: Are you putting into practice what you’re learning? I really enjoy writing these letters to you because they help me, too. I want to not only read what the greats have done but also find ways to apply what works best for me. Do you agree? Leo Tolstoy, one of the…
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Dear Creative Use of Haiku, #12. 2025
Dear Creative, My cousin is a poet, and I didn’t even know it. During a recent trip to Atlanta, I sat still, captivated as I absorbed the elegant rhyming verses composed for his wife, who I affectionately refer to as my bonus cousin. (She’s a courageous stroke survivor whose recovery we rejoice in.) My cousin’s…
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Stay Happy #11.2025
Dear Creatives, Happy Friday! I have great news. New opportunities are emerging for me and considering them has postponed this message’s arrival. However, a stall isn’t a stop. I’m happy to present this short yet important note to you today that I had to learn the hard way. As creatives, it’s easy to forget the mundane…