Creativity Blog

Ice cream is the most popular summer dessert. Hot fudge sundaes and root beer floats may fill our individual memories, but they also occupy our

There’s so much to say about ice cream! When I first decided to write about creativity and this frosty treat, I assumed it would be

The old-fashioned Dairy Queen of my childhood hometown exclusively served ice cream treats. You ordered at a sliding window, and if you wanted to sit

The phrase “a year of play” may conjure visions of a long vacation at a seaside villa with alternating sessions of building sandcastles and drinking

I have lived most of my life in places where fireflies are uncommon. Then I moved to Indiana, whose official state insect is a species

The musical Grease (not the film, but the stage production), begins at the 20-year class reunion of the Rydell High School Class of 1959. The

I have a loved one with dementia. Maybe you do, too. Each case is so different that it is difficult to say much of anything

I recently went to a live reading by Neil Gaiman, an author of immense imagination. Even if you don’t recognize his name, you probably know

The question of what it means to feel “at home” has been on my mind lately. Last year, my family moved from one region of