Creativity – Barbara Ganias Comstock

Wander through a messy garden; dig up some writing ideas

I woke up thinking about my vegetable garden. It’s a mess. The cilantro was a brilliant flash in the pan but now there are only brown, stubby reeds left. The lettuce seems to be reaching for the sky — tall shoots with buds of flowers. It really doesn’t look like lettuce anymore, but more like…

Let’s Have Coffee and Talk Ideas (inspired by Steven Johnson’s “Where Good Ideas Come From”)

I haven’t written in a while. Sometimes, life is all about getting to work, driving to soccer practice, grading papers, planning lessons, and chopping veggies for something we might call dinner. Sometimes, the doing shoves the word-making, idea-exploring off to the side. And then you have a Saturday morning, where you wake up at 5:00…