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...

" To achieve great things, you need a plan and not quite enough time ." Leonard Bernstein The quote above by the brilliant...

First of all, let’s agree that, even though it doesn’t seem that way on any given day, most of the world is getting along remarkably...

Okay, calm down, kinesthetic simply means moving, using your body, doing. And some people (about five percent of the population) learn...

“True art takes note not merely of form, but also of what lies behind.” Mahatma Ghandi I live in the neighborhood of San Pedro,...

“ Quiet people have the loudest minds .” Stephen Hawking Ever since I started writing seriously, with an intent to share my work, I’ve...

“ Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome, and fear...

“ There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love....

“ Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve .” Oscar Wilde If you’ve ever attended an orchestra concert and...

" In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine ." Ralph Waldo Emerson Remember the Disney movie,...

"I found I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn't say any other way; things I had no words for." Georgia O'Keefe When I...

“My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.” Robert Mapplethorpe That quote by artist...

There was a day many years ago when I was driving in Wisconsin, doing some shopping errands close to my home at the time. My mind was,...

" If at first the idea is not absurd, then there's no hope for it ." Albert Einstein Most human beings recognize humor very early in...

From the time we’re born, we are interacting with systems of control. It may not seem that way, since typically our families love and...

When our two sons were growing up in the 1980’s, we were some of the first people in our suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin to own a PC...

“A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory...

When it comes to thinking about and understanding creativity, there are many doors into examining how it affects and influences us. One...

There’s an odd misconception among humans as to what constitutes creativity. As a musician, I have often had people say to me, enviously,...

"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...