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Creativity

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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

Good intentions

I'm at my most productive when I'm doing something else. Actually, that should read I intend productivity when I'm doing something else. In practice, that means that at 8:30 on a Tuesday night when I'm close to being done with work, I start thinking of all the productive things I can do at home, once I get there. In reality, once I get home, it's off to the time vortex that is Facebook, games, emails and other time wasters. I know I should cut myself off from these things, but I can't. Because they are useful. Even the games, in moderation. But especially for doing family history and stuff like that. So I need to retrain my brain, I guess. Start timing my unuseful Facebook time and get started on those projects I'm behind on. Right after I catch up on my games ...

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate?

You can read my post here or choose to go to Married to Medicine: Vaccination: A Layperson's Perspective . My post is my opinion,facts I found through Google, personal knowledge and a bit of family history. Married to Medicine has more facts and photos of actual people (mostly children) who caught diseases that could have been prevented, plus links to scientific articles about vaccination. To me, it's more important that you be fully informed (and hopefully more likely to vaccinate for your kids' safety and the safety of others) than whether you read my words or someone else's. I chose to vaccinate my kids. I feel that the risk of a reaction from the vaccination (particularly since we don't have a history of problems) is much less than the possible risk of the actual disease. I butted heads with a mom blogger a couple of months ago over her anti-vaccination stance. She recently posted in favor of no-peanut policy in schools because *gasp* allergic kids die of ex