November can be the cruelest month, especially when the end of Daylight Savings Time plunges us suddenly into premature darkness. From then on, it’s a slippery downhill slope for many of us, straight through the holidays and into the New Year when we begin noticing the precious minutes of daylight that beat back the darkness… [Read More]
Sign up for my creative block-busting workshops and win a prize!
I’ll be facilitating two workshops at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy this November. There’s still time to register, and if you do, or if you get a friend to register, I’ve got a special prize for you. Read on to learn what you’ll win. But first, here are the workshop descriptions…. [Read More]
Everybody look what’s going down – Stills song still rings true
Last night I ushered for Stephen Stills and Judy Collins at The Egg, and I’m planning to blog about it, along with some ruminations about aging rockers and those who have left us recently. But just now I happened upon this post from six years ago, and I decided to republish it today. Last night “For… [Read More]
Haiku observations while walking my dog
Walking my dog Sirius this morning, I noticed the thousands of pink petals carpeting the black asphalt roadside. A strong wind had whipped through overnight, and I realized it had stripped most of the petals from my neighbor’s crab apple tree, robbing it of much of its spring magnificence. The sight reminded me of cherry… [Read More]
The Creative Crone: My new book project
How do you like the new look of my blog? To celebrate the official beginning of my nonfiction book on creativity, I decided it was high time for a new visual theme, and this one is in perfect harmony with the coming of spring. I’ve registered a new domain name, www.creativecrone.net, and I’m working on… [Read More]
Celebrating World Bipolar Day and speaking truth to power
Today is World Bipolar Day, an initiative created by many international organizations and celebrated each year on March 30th, the birthday of Vincent Van Gogh.* To commemorate the day, I’m reprinting the Afterword from the 2015 reissue of my mystery novel Mood Swing: The Bipolar Murders. The novel was inspired by my outrageously discriminatory… [Read More]