Are You a Hunter, or a Farmer?
A story about attention deficit and what we decided to do about it when it affected our son.
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PAMELA FOARD
Pamela Bayard Foard
Sep 113 min
Am I Glowing?
Today, my little Dove Dark Chocolate (I have one each day) candy wrapper message said “Look at you glow.” I looked in the mirror, and...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Sep 34 min
Two Powerful Ways Art Affects Us
When I was an undergraduate music student, I was suddenly exposed to a wealth of compositions that, even though I came from a musical...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Aug 274 min
Can Anything Good Come Out of Anger and Hatred?
When I was growing up in Milwaukee, my mother insisted that my sister and I learn to make our own clothing. This was not simply to teach...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Aug 214 min
Nerves, Nerves, Nerves...is Peak Performance Possible When You're Scared?
What is the biggest fear human beings consistently wrestle with? Not WWIII, earthquakes, or other mayhem
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Aug 154 min
Does Music Bind Us Together?
Ever wonder how music manages to bring us together? Here's a brief explanation.
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Aug 153 min
Dancing Like Nobody's Watching (and May Never Watch) - That's What it's Like To Be a Creator
Creating is not easy. It's lonely, hard work that may never be noticed by anyone. As a creator, I have to simply do the work each day.
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Aug 154 min
Proso Pag What Now?
Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognize faces. It is linked to spatial disorientation.
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Jul 313 min
What To Do While Your Father Lies Dying?
In December, 2009, my eighty-nine year old father had a stroke.
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Jul 254 min
When It Comes to Creativity, Is It Really a Rich Man's World?
Money, money, money, must be funny, in a rich man’s world. Money, money, money, always sunny, in a rich man’s world. ~ ABBA It’s become...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Jul 144 min
Manning Up in Your Last Act
“But I’ve bought a big bat, I’m all ready you see, Now my troubles are going to have Trouble with me!” ~ Dr. Seuss (from “I Had Trouble...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Jul 63 min
Who Will You Become?
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become.
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Jun 103 min
How the Easter Bunny Saved Me, Sort Of
One of my earliest memories, probably when I was around four or so, is of making a crayon picture of the Easter Bunny. I was very proud...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Jun 34 min
What is Your Ikigai?
I remember my parents as always looking forward to their retirement years. Retirement in post-depression, post-WWII America meant you had...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
May 284 min
One More Time, With Feeling!
How to translate feelings into something creative like art or music.
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Pamela Bayard Foard
May 184 min
Conjuring the Rest of Your Life
Let’s face it, creativity can be elusive and frustrating, somewhat like waking up in the morning and trying to remember the dream you...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
May 44 min
Is Imagination More Important than Knowledge?
How can we use our imagination with knowledge to create a better world?
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Apr 284 min
The End
We all know it’s out there, from the time we’re little kids. We know it’s coming, it’s part of being alive. At some point, our current...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Apr 284 min
Reach Out and Touch Someone
Several years ago, I met someone who had spent a day with the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Pamela Bayard Foard
Apr 84 min
How Do We Know When to Move On?
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose I’ve been a classical violinist since the age of twelve. There was a violin...
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