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Honoring Your Child AND Your Muse
"Muse" by Marisa Ross How do you honor your muse when you put your children first? It’s a question every art-inclined parent surely has weighed. This blog chronicles my return to an art-committed life,...
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Crustacean Christmas Revisited
Have you ever typed “crustacean Christmas” into Google? It probably says something about the oddity of our family tradition that an Artist’s Road blog post about it is the first entry on that list....
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How Do We Cure The Post-Partum Creativity Blues?
I’m feeling quite empty right now and can’t seem to focus on any one piece of writing. That’s what a writer friend of mine wrote to all of us in her local writer’s group in explaining why she needed to...
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Guest Post: Shaping a Heart
Is your creativity guided more when given structure or chaos? An overly simple query, perhaps, but a topic that has generated some compelling discussions here at The Artist’s Road. Today I’m offering a...
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When Did You First Embrace Your Creativity?
There were many commonalities I found among the creatives I interviewed during my 2010 cross-country U.S. trip. One was that my interview subjects all discovered their own creative side at a very early...
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Five Keys to Living an Art-Committed Life
His story is simultaneously inspiring and horrifying. After ten years in the rat-race of London, James Rhodes returned to his true passion, the piano. He dedicated himself to achieving the mastery he...
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Why I Never Call Someone Talented
God-given. Gifted. Blessed. These are adjectives and nouns we use when referring to someone as talented. We are suggesting that talent was a gift the individual received before he or she was even born....
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