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Angry Birds and Creativity

June 27, 2011 Creativity

Whenever people talk about kids and video games, you don’t often hear much said about being creative, but I was thinking today about all the ways video games enhance and support my eight-year-old’s creativity.
Take Angry Birds, for example. If you’re not into video games at all, Wikipedia tells you all about the phenomenon that is [...]

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Making Magic: Appreciation

November 23, 2010 Creativity

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I am immersed in deadline after deadline right now, and in days of yore (I’ve always wanted to use that phrase in a post!) I would have let myself be pulled into a static, drone-like existence, working long hours day after day, late into the night.
No fun, no creativity, no laughter. Just work, work, [...]

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My iPhone Life: Work ease and productivity … ahhhhh

October 22, 2010 Life

Last year, for my birthday, I got an iPhone.
And my life changed. No, seriously, it did. And it’s changed enough that I’ve decided it’s high time I blog about it occasionally.
Take my indexing work, for example – which, by the way, is THE perfect day job for a writer. Sure, it’s deadline driven, but my [...]

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Time Management Games: A Major Misnomer

February 2, 2010 Life

I recently stumbled into a whole series of games called “time management games”, a name which I think is terribly, terribly misleading.
“Time suck games” is more like it.
Let me just say, none of these games have helped me with my time management issues, although they’ve been quite good at adding to my time management challenges. [...]

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Odds and Ends

January 22, 2010 Random Stuff

It’s been quite a week – I’ve finished a couple of deadlines, spent Wednesday morning getting a test done (no worries, all is well), Wednesday night feeling pleasantly drowsy, pampered and well-fed, (oh, and I spent Tuesday night very hungry since my test required an all-liquid diet the day before), and today I finally managed [...]

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