Today, I’m talking about failed efforts to do something creative. You’ve made a painting and you really don’t like it. It doesn’t make you happy. In fact, it just looks like a chaotic mess. And then, there’s that crocheting or knitting project. You are working quite happily when all of a sudden… you realize that […]

  Today’s prompt in the Cornerstone Content Challenge is to share a success story. Which makes me wonder. What is success? One definition describes success as “attaining wealth, prosperity, or fame.” Another dictionary definition describes success as the achievement of goals. As an example, if I were to complete my blogging challenge for this month

  In a previous post (click me, I’m the link to the December 7th post), I talked about the idea that anyone can create art. It’s not necessary to have any sort of talent. All that you need is your enthusiasm and that yes-I-can attitude!  Once you’ve decided to explore the world of visual art,

 I love roasted pumpkin seeds. They are both delicious and crunchy. What can be better than that? Crunchy food is happiness. Every year, I eagerly awaited my opportunity to buy sugar pumpkins, also known as a pie pumpkin, which are smaller and sweeter than the pumpkins used as jack o’lanterns.  Once I had my pumpkins,

 Today’s blogging prompt is “content that motivates you.” I have always tried to see life as a great adventure, despite all of the setbacks that I experienced along the way. I haven’t always succeeded. I’ve been overwhelmed at times. I didn’t understand that FAIL meant “first attempt in learning.” I thought that failure was forever

 I have never experienced a Christmas like this one. It is the first Christmas that I won’t spend with my family, enjoying meals and doing group unboxings. I won’t sing with a church choir. No “Silent Night” in a candlelit church. No decorating the church. Nothing. Just me and the decorations that I have put

The COVID 19 pandemic has resulted in the cancellation of all indoor gatherings. Because the Grand Island Historical Society cannot hold its annual Christmas gatherings, here is a collection of photographs from years past.  

 “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” — Pablo Picasso Are people born to be artists or is art a skill that anyone can develop with a lot of practice and good instruction? There is a concept among many people that, to be an artist,

 Today’s blogging challenge is to share content that evokes emotions. Well, there is definitely a huge range of emotions that could be evoked, especially now, during a worldwide crisis. A time like this is when we need to remember that this, too, will pass. Also, that distractions are definitely welcome during a very difficult time.

Today’s blogging prompt from the Cornerstone Content challenge is to share content that evokes memories.  So I decided to share a whole bunch of images of things that might evoke memories in the form of an acrostic. An acrostic is a poem where the first letter of each line spells out a word or a