“My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.” Robert Mapplethorpe That quote by artist...

There was a day many years ago when I was driving in Wisconsin, doing some shopping errands close to my home at the time. My mind was,...

" If at first the idea is not absurd, then there's no hope for it ." Albert Einstein Most human beings recognize humor very early in...

From the time we’re born, we are interacting with systems of control. It may not seem that way, since typically our families love and...

When our two sons were growing up in the 1980’s, we were some of the first people in our suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin to own a PC...

“A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory...

When it comes to thinking about and understanding creativity, there are many doors into examining how it affects and influences us. One...

There’s an odd misconception among humans as to what constitutes creativity. As a musician, I have often had people say to me, enviously,...

"Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing." Helen Keller We’ve all been there. We have an inspiration, a great idea that came...

I've been a runner since my twenties. When I was sixty, I trained for and ran my first marathon in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It took me five...

When I was living in the Midwest and belonged to a local Rotary Club, one of the things our chapter became part of was a reading program...

When we think about creativity and how it takes form, it’s useful to look at people, or animals, who have a lot of challenges in their...

The other day, I was daydreaming about living in another country other than my home in the U.S., and I began to wonder about other...

Having just become a grandparent, I’m struck by the complete and total strangeness of suddenly having another human being in my life, one...

Now that we’ve experienced a little time gap between we citizens of Earth and Covid, it’s interesting to look back and see how the whole...

Since returning from a three week trip to Europe on September 6, I’ve had some time to reflect on some of my experiences there. It...

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~ Albert Einstein When I was little, say five to eight years old,...

I just returned from a three week trip to Europe, the planning of which was a gift of sorts from one of our sons. He knew that a lifelong...

Aren’t dreams great? Especially when we’re doing things like flying effortlessly around the neighborhood or performing for an astonished...

As a lifelong musician, I have often heard colleagues say something like, “I was totally in the zone” after a performance that went...