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Get Your Literature On

by Lindsey Anderson on March 29, 2008

www.literature.org/ is one of many sources for free books online. A simple Google search will return many results, but this is a site that I was drawn to because of its bare bones simplicity. Don’t get too excited - you won’t be able to get the latest New York Times bestseller here. But you can read, print, do […]

Not to be Frivolous,

by Jacqueline Johnson on March 26, 2008

but I have been extremely tired of looking at the same To-Do List on my wall. Just a plain piece of college-ruled notebook paper hanging from my wall with a list of nice stressful list. To-Do lists can be so dreadful, especially when you have huge projects listed in a row for the […]

How to Be Artistic (Even if You Aren’t an Artist)

by Lindsey Anderson on March 25, 2008

My sister goes to art school. She does a lot of artwork for Mind Sprocket, and does all kinds of crazy art for school - things that involve sculpting meat and sewing herself into a homemade strait jacket and piecing together neat fabrics.
I’m not an artist. I don’t know about any of these things, though […]

Be Shiny

by Lindsey Anderson on March 24, 2008

“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.”
–Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
This quote ought to speak volumes to someone who is hoping to accomplish something. How many of us begin a project (piece of art, piece of writing, a diet, a household fit-it project) and fail to finish it? Or drag our […]

On Getting Ideas

by Lindsey Anderson on March 20, 2008

“How can you go on talking so quietly, head down-wards?” Alice asked, as she dragged him out by the feet, and laid him in a heap on the bank.
The Knight looked surprised at the question. “What does it matter where my body happens to be?” he said. “My mind goes on working […]

When Words Refuse Us.

by Jacqueline Johnson on March 19, 2008

I noticed that my ink well has dried up for the past week. Do other writers experience this? The idea that what we write comes from another realm, as if we don’t have control over what graces the pages of our beloved notebooks?When the ink refuses to fl ow from my pen, I fill up […]

How to Change Your Life

by Lindsey Anderson on March 18, 2008

I noticed a bunch of people making life-changing choices lately, mostly job related. I quit my job last week. So did two of the attorneys at the same company. Then I found out a secretary also quit. Then today I found out that a friend at another company resigned from her job.
I don’t know what’s […]

“Truth is not a solid”

by Edward Atkinson on March 17, 2008

That thought hit me yesterday, and I don’t know why. I was just walking, enjoying the gorgeous Georgian weather, and paying attention to little. And it flashed into my head: “Truth is not a solid.”
Interesting.
We say that there are pillars of truth, principles of truth, constants of truth. And (excuse the wording) […]

Daydreams

by Lindsey Anderson on March 13, 2008

It’s not too uncommon to hear about keeping a “dream journal” … a journal where you record what flies around in your head at night. But I tend to do more daydreaming than night dreaming — at least, my daydreams make more sense and they aren’t nearly as fleeting as night dreams.
So I tried to […]

When Literature Hugs Back

by Jacqueline Johnson on March 12, 2008

I keep scanning my bookshelf for a choice book. I’m not sure for what I’m looking, but I do know that I can’t just read anything at this particular moment. I want to read, but not just anything. A book can’t just happen to me. I want to meet a character at […]

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