We’re back, gang, with another review of a book from the Creative Activities Dot-Dot-Dot Program series: Producing! Yes, we’re gonna learn all about “getting the show on the road.” That includes aspects including make-up, costumes, props, scenery, stages, special effects, the script, and the production… Read More »#8 Producing: Creative Activities…Program Series
In 2005, I had a summer-long job as the creative writing assistant at Arts Alive, a high school art program. It was the most obviously creative job I’ve ever had, and inspiring and fun to boot. And in this post, I’ll be reminiscing all about… Read More »Working Gal: When I Was a Creative Writing Assistant
I recently found my artist statement from The Tampon Ball, which—as you can discern from the title of this post—was my first art exhibition. Sure, I had had my work in school art shows but never did I star in one. That changed one summer… Read More »The Tampon Ball: My First Art Exhibition
It’s been a while since we endured a flip-through of one of these Creative Activities Cryptic-Out-of-Place-Ellipses Program books, and this time, we’ll be Communicating! Considering how well these books have communicated ideas so far… Jesus. See, there was an example of how to use ellipses… Read More »#7 Communicating: Creative Activities…Program Series
Now we’ll take a trip to 1994, a scant year after I penned my murderous mermaid masterpiece More Blood, to when I owned a (stylish!) model company! Actually, I was eleven so I didn’t own shit. I also didn’t really know anything about modeling. But… Read More »Stylish Model Company
When my maternal grandmother died, she left behind a pretty decent-sized collection of vintage comics that included Creepy, Eerie, MAD, and Cracked. These, paired with my dad’s Conan the Barbarian comics, made for some pretty educational reading material for Third-Grade Me in the mid-’90s. I… Read More »Tie-Dyed Creepy Comics
I was digitizing (a fancy word for me jumping up every thirty seconds from my chair to scan a new page) notebooks featuring old drawings and stories of mine. When I say “old,” I mean, they’ve been around for twenty-five years or more. I don’t… Read More »More Blood -OR- The Story of the Murderous Mermaid
There are really so many photos you can take of beautiful flowers. Unpopular opinion there? For sure I’ve halted in my tracks upon seeing an I-can’t-believe-this-isn’t-fake passionflower and had to take a picture. But like many images that wind up on Instagram, flower pics tend… Read More »Florrible: When Flora Goes to Seed
That’s right, gang—it’s time for another review of a book in the Creative Activities …Program series! We’re now on #5 Creating, and I had high hopes for this one; the idea of being creative and creating anything is super exciting to me. But I gotta give… Read More »#5 Creating: Creative Activities…Program Series
If you’ve been reading this blog for more than five minutes, you probably noticed that I’ve made a lot of mermaid art, especially when I was younger. Shoot, I wanted to be a mermaid as a kid. I suppose that makes sense; we had a… Read More »MerMay and a Lot of Mermaid Art