Happy birthday, Clifford!
Perhaps not surprisingly, seeing as how my name is Emily Elizabeth, I was a fan of the Clifford books growing up. This year, he turns 50! There’s something so special for a kid about seeing his or her name in writing. This invitation to participate in a new world of narratives. For a long time, […]
Travel in your future
“The idea of having travel in your future is like having a book that you haven’t read by an author who you love.” – Paul Theroux One month til takeoff. (from NPR’s Talk of the Nation)
30 Days of Creativity: Day 8
Kinda missed my deadline on this one. Spent most of the evening facilitating others’ creativity (and at times my own) via a board meeting at the arts education center I work with – fueling the creativity machine in one way or another! I was thinking yesterday about the little ways we insert creativity into our […]
Books on the nightstand
It’s possible (though, ok, fairly unlikely) that you’ve noticed a little change in my sidebar. After a few years with WeRead, formerly Books iRead on facebook (one of many things that seems to have just *poof!* disappeared with the stupid new facebook), I got sick of seeing this: So many weird dead links. And a […]
An ode to the personal letter
“An elegy is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.” – Wikipedia Although I have been somewhat neglectful of letter writing lately, I’m now trying to get back into it – a goal which is helped enormously by the coming of spring and summer, as few […]
I like writing, photography, reading, music, design, typography, paper products, days in the seventies and sparkly snow, Spanish wine and cans of PBR. I spent a year in Córdoba, Spain, working as a 
