A key talent to tracking wonder relates to openness, and it very well may be the talent that every creative professional – especially the experienced ones, the experts, the accomplished ones – needs to practice every day.

In Search of Lost Time by bogenfreud, Flickr What if you could relate to time like art to sculpt instead of as a force to curse? I’ll make this quick because I know your clock time…

Cultivating wonder renews how we create, relate to each other, and experience every day. Maybe it is our adult responsibility not to abdicate wonder to children. Maybe it is our responsibility to co-make an adult world infused with wonder so…

Myth #1: Successful, gratified writers mostly have talent. Myth #2: Marketing & platform-building are the most important qualities for any writer to have a long-term career these days. A few years ago, a question troubled me. Among the many creatives…

In college, I ogled over a smoky black-and-white photograph of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. In their book-flooded study, Jean-Paul sits at his desk on one end of the room, and on the other side Simone sits at hers….

Photo Credit: Danka Peter The Idea The idea started to congeal this past summer: In the past few years, I had offered a creative work flow series, an author’s mentorship program that sold out, and a…