How Do You Know if You're Creative?
There’s an odd misconception among humans as to what constitutes creativity. As a musician, I have often had people say to me, enviously,...
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PAMELA FOARD
Pamela Bayard Foard
- Nov 15
- 4 min
Why is Uncertainty Such a Buzz Kill?
"Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing." Helen Keller We’ve all been there. We have an inspiration, a great idea that came...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Nov 8
- 4 min
When Should You Give Up Chasing Your Dreams?
I've been a runner since my twenties. When I was sixty, I trained for and ran my first marathon in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It took me five...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Oct 24
- 4 min
What Terrible Creative Price Does Poverty Exact?
When I was living in the Midwest and belonged to a local Rotary Club, one of the things our chapter became part of was a reading program...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Oct 18
- 4 min
What We Can Learn from the Inuit about Creativity?
When we think about creativity and how it takes form, it’s useful to look at people, or animals, who have a lot of challenges in their...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Oct 14
- 4 min
How Creative is Your Country?
The other day, I was daydreaming about living in another country other than my home in the U.S., and I began to wonder about other...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Oct 6
- 5 min
Are Infants Creative? Naaahh....
Having just become a grandparent, I’m struck by the complete and total strangeness of suddenly having another human being in my life, one...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Sep 29
- 4 min
Did Covid Make Us More Creative?
Now that we’ve experienced a little time gap between we citizens of Earth and Covid, it’s interesting to look back and see how the whole...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Sep 23
- 4 min
Creative Solutions are Everywhere!
Since returning from a three week trip to Europe on September 6, I’ve had some time to reflect on some of my experiences there. It...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Sep 18
- 4 min
A School in England Teaches Children to Intuit
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~ Albert Einstein When I was little, say five to eight years old,...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Sep 11
- 6 min
Expand Your Horizons
I just returned from a three week trip to Europe, the planning of which was a gift of sorts from one of our sons. He knew that a lifelong...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Aug 14
- 4 min
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Aren’t dreams great? Especially when we’re doing things like flying effortlessly around the neighborhood or performing for an astonished...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Aug 11
- 4 min
Are You In the Zone?
As a lifelong musician, I have often heard colleagues say something like, “I was totally in the zone” after a performance that went...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Aug 3
- 5 min
Taking that First Step into the Unknown
Self-improvement guru Tony Robbins advises that if you’re not planning something in your life right now that scares the living daylights...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Aug 1
- 4 min
Creativity, the brain, dementia
In 2010, I became my mother’s caretaker. My father had just passed away, at age eighty-nine. They were still living in their home, so I...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Jul 29
- 5 min
PTSD - How Does Creativity Help?
WARNING: this posting graphically discusses depression, suicide, and battlefield trauma. We hear a lot about post traumatic stress...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Jul 20
- 4 min
Are You Baffled?
I was reading one of my favorite authors, Anne Lamott, the other day. Her book, “Small Victories, Spotting Improbably Moments of Grace”,...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Jul 10
- 3 min
Taylor Mac.....forces us to wonder
There’s a new HBO Max film on recently by the singer-songwriter Taylor Mac (who is also an actor, playwright, performance artist,...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- Jun 22
- 4 min
Creation Through Sci-Fi
When I was growing up in ‘60’s Midwest America, my two siblings and I had butts in seats whenever the innovative new TV show, “Star...
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Pamela Bayard Foard
- May 2
- 4 min
Kurt Vonnegut Conquers Creativity!
I saw this post about Kurt Vonnegut on Instagram today, Kurt Vonnegut was not only a remarkable, one off writer, but he was also a...
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