Creativity vs. COVIDI went looking for an answer to the question of why the pandemic and quarantine has affected so many artists — in my world, mostly I mean…Mar 19, 20211Mar 19, 20211
At the crossroads of Creativity & ClutterAn article on the APA site, A messy desk encourages a creative mind, study finds, written in 2013, describes an experiment in which people…Mar 18, 2021Mar 18, 2021
And then the monster ate the princessThe lamp light in the living room of the Santa Monica apartment was low. My grandfather’s memorial proved more a celebration of his life…Mar 17, 2021Mar 17, 2021
It’s spring.I know this because it’s freezing cold at the top of Reno’s North Valleys. The high today was 37F. The sun comes and goes, teasing. The…Mar 16, 2021Mar 16, 2021
Stress baking and quarantining: A sweet wedding anniversaryMy husband and I celebrated our anniversary during this weird spring of shelter in place and stores sold out of flour. It wasn’t that much…Apr 18, 2020Apr 18, 2020
Why I left an online freelancing agencyI’ve been a freelance writer for a lot of years, starting with magazines I was steered to by the writers’ group I was involved with and…Nov 24, 2019Nov 24, 2019
Stressed? Bake it off — the continuing popularity of stress bakingWhatever your politics, let’s just note that the number of people doing something called stress baking — and experiencing stress in…May 16, 2019May 16, 2019
Reflections on a Munchausen’s by Proxy Childhood, Part 4Factitious disorder that’s not imposed on anotherMar 21, 20191Mar 21, 20191
Reflections on a Munchausen’s by Proxy Childhood, Part 3My senior year of high school I developed a throat infection. It was hard to tell, because it made my head ache (but so did the lights in…Mar 21, 2019Mar 21, 2019
