Category Archives for Creative
Blind Art and art therapy
My good friend Amber introduced me to an idea called Blind Art and in this post, challenged me to do my own blind self portrait. Since I like to think of myself as tech-savvy and innovative, I am happy to … Continue reading
The runaway fox
Some kids doodle in class. I write poetry. Not good poetry … I don’t understand poetry. Think of it like you think of doodling. It’s on the edges of your lined notebook paper, right around the three binder holes so … Continue reading
A new genre of poetry: QR
The hallmark of being an artist is creating something wholly original. Think back, and the artists we study and who’s work we view in museums is not always the ones who sold the most paintings, but the artists who were … Continue reading
Dialogue and Aaron Sorkin
I’ve never written dialogue — there has been dialogue in my writing but I have never written an outstanding piece made of dialogue alone. But, after attending a Q&A with Aaron Sorkin at the Newport Beach Film Festival, I wanted … Continue reading
Endless Summer
I forgot how good this is A non-fiction narrative story I wrote for my sports writing class in grad school at Medill. The summer I was sixteen, I felt like I was living in the green grass on the other … Continue reading
A semi-official assignment
First there was a cockroach. No, wait. That happened later. Fourteen students traveled to the downtown newsroom for a class called Sports Reporting. After being ejected from their classroom, the graduate students took a knee and as if it were … Continue reading