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Gaming and Creativity

Gaming and Creativity

Seriously now, roll a d20 and add your Creativity skill. Ok, I have no idea what that means, but my husband, an avid gamer, sure does. We have been married for seven years and I have had to listen to Read More…

Posted in Musings from the Center for Creativity
Travel Musings from a Museum Nerd

Travel Musings from a Museum Nerd

I am a museum nerd. I work at an art museum and I love museums of all kinds – art museums (of course), history museums, house museums, science museums and on and on. Whenever I travel I search them out… Read More…

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Why We Need Harry Potter

Why We Need Harry Potter

I’ll admit it; I was a long-time resistor of Potter Mania. I simply didn’t buy that any youth book could possibly be so great as to live up to all of the hype and the OMG-this-is-the-best-thing-EVER attitude that permeated American Read More…

Posted in Day to Day, Musings from the Center for Creativity
What If?

What If?

I like mantras.  Every once in a while I adopt a new personal mantra and litter my world with it; tacking it to my refrigerator, my computer, and my office walls.   I’ve had the same mantra for several years now: Read More…

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Why Boredom Matters

Why Boredom Matters

For our first “Musings from the Center for Creativity” I wanted to focus on an aspect of creativity that has been the catalyst for some of the greatest ideas in history… boredom. Two years ago I began asking adults to Read More…

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