Creativity
In response to this blog post "3 Ways to Increase Your (and Your Child’s) Creativity" , I commented: I never told my parents this at the time, but I gave up on being artistic in kindergarten. We made "Indian" clay pots and to my eyes, my little pot was misshapen and ugly, while it seemed that everyone else's pots were delicate and lovely. I felt that I could not ever catch up, so I gave up. I'm still trying to overcome that. It's been 47 years and that self-doubt, that self-criticism, still holds me back. I try to get around it. I have scrapbooked, both physically and digitally. I have used Photoshop and Illustrator to create and manipulate images. I used to draw, a little, back in high school, but would never show it off. I have written (well, you know that, you are reading my blog) fiction, nonfiction, columns, blog posts, talks that I have given at church, a eulogy for my mother. And yet I still don't feel good enough to say "I am cre...