Find Your Car Keys, Unlock Your Creativity

Find Your Car Keys, Unlock Your Creativity

You can’t pop the hood for an inspection.  There’s no starting switch, no pedals to pump and no brakes.  Your brain just goes.  And goes.  And the more it goes the sharper it becomes. You can’t feel it, and you can’t see it.  But it is consuming glucose and energy...
Outsider Art

Outsider Art

In his first exhibition (1940), Bill Traylor’s art work was described as “primitive.”  In New York (1943), it was classified as “folk art by an old Negro man.”  It went into storage, unseen for 33 years.  Then, it was labeled “Black Folk Art” by the Corcoran Gallery...
One-Two, Buckle My Shoe

One-Two, Buckle My Shoe

“There’s two kinds of people in the world: Those who think people can be divided up into two types, and those who don’t.” Groucho Marx   There are two types of creativity theories: those that divide the brain into dual modes and those that...
Skeleton Class

Skeleton Class

“Thigh bone connected to the hip bone… neck bone connected to the head bone…” Lyrics from “Dry Bones”   We all have the same basic skeleton. Though each may be slightly different—variable in size, strength or density.  There are 206 bones in the human body which...