Changing the Game
As a guest lecturer in the Advanced Placement 2-D Design class, I introduced Creative Thinking Skills (CTS) to a group of high school seniors. Half of them I’d never met. The other half, I’d met
February 8, 2023
As a guest lecturer in the Advanced Placement 2-D Design class, I introduced Creative Thinking Skills (CTS) to a group of high school seniors. Half of them I’d never met. The other half, I’d met
I love hearing actors deftly inhabit Shakespeare’s language and watching his stories unfold on stage until everyone is dead, dancing, or married. Reading his plays is a different story. I get tangled in the written
I had a great time on the Idea Gym podcast with Tanya & Rachel talking about risk taking. It’s the foundational Creative Thinking Skill that causes us to bite our nails, fear the worst, worry
I first interviewed entrepreneur Chris Kelly for the Topanga Messenger in May, 2012. Ten years later, we sat down in his shop to talk about his philosophies on life and building a mountain biking community steeped in creativity.
Growing up in Maryland, our family crossed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge every summer on the way to the beach. I didn’t think about how the structure, more than four miles long, withstood wind, rain, and
While preparing to direct a short documentary about the Akumal Arts Festival in Mexico, I faced a pivotal moment. Icy fear coated my gut. The ghost of low self-esteem screamed, You f***’d up!!! You have
“None of us are perfect, but all over the place in every community and field of endeavor, there are people who are working generatively with the challenges before us; meeting them, rising to their best human capacities — at least on their good days — and creating new possibilities and realities. They’re not publicized, they’re not investigated, but that landscape is as real and important as that landscape of everything we can point out as failing and corrupt and catastrophic. “
