Archives April, 2009

How To Be More Creative

Photo by-Delphine-
By Vic Stachura
Welcome to this month’s issue of “The Creativity Times” – the online, not-for-print, ezine that explores the nature of creativity and gives you tips to improve your own creative abilities.  This month we’re featuring an interview with some of the top creative minds in the world.  Our ace reporter Art Viceity traveled [...]

7 Ways & 7 Days to Renew Your Life

Photo by Noah G.
By Carole Lynne
To renew and reinvent our lives we need a plan. Here it is: a seven-day process to work with over and over. This plan incorporates physical, mental and spiritual work. Use the whole seven-day process, or choose any one of the days to work with as you create the life [...]

Exploring Best Friendship

Photo by Stu Seeger
By Dan Miranda
“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” -Charles Caleb Colton
When somebody says “best friend,” who is the first person to pop into your head? Is it your spouse, your next door neighbor, or even your own pet?
What if no one [...]

An Invisible Cup of Tea, and Other Ways to Take Shelter From The Storms of Life

Photo by The Giant Vermin
By Ruth Harrison Moody
The rapid fire pace of daily life takes its toll and often fails to give us even a moment to pause, recover from, or even consider what’s going on around us. Our world is more frenetic, more overwhelming and more opportunity- laden than at any time before in [...]

Are You Trying to Live Up to Other People’s Values?

Photo by bejealousofme
By Ali Hale
Do you often feel guilty about things that you aren’t doing – or things that you are doing? Do you find yourself saying “I really should…” or “I know I’m supposed to…” or “I must…”? Are you trying to live up to someone else’s values?
There are so many pressures on us [...]

Love Changes Everything

Photo by AYUMi
By Mark David Gerson
“Love, love changes everything … Nothing in the world will ever be the same.” ~ from Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Aspects of Love”
The black jeep drives out of the Denny’s parking lot in Gallup, New Mexico, my daughter Guinevere waving from the back seat. It turns south on Muñoz Drive, then [...]

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