friday fun on hiatus
Posted in friday fun on Jun 25th, 2010
Friday Fun is on hiatus for the rest of the summer. I’ll still post, but I’m focusing most of my creative energy on Quartz.
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friday fun: twist a fairy tale
Posted in friday fun on Jun 11th, 2010
June is Fairy Tale month here at the playground, in honor of Miss M’s birthday. Today’s Friday Fun is to twist a fairy tale! Here’s a couple of ways to get you started. Change genres or setting. Use a high-concept movie pitch: Rapunzel in space! Cinderella in an anime! The Little Mermaid meets Jaws in [...]
weekend fun: take a picture
Posted in friday fun, pretty pictures on May 30th, 2010
Or more, because bet you can’t just take one. Here’s a red admiral that came to visit our lilacs this month. I got several shots of him, but he was rather high up and standing on a plastic domed sandbox lid is a rather precarious position to be in! Happy Memorial Day weekend to all [...]
friday fun: your turn!
Posted in friday fun on May 21st, 2010
We’ve spent most of this week outside soaking in the sunshine. Feels like my blood has turned warm and golden, my hands still remember being plunged into dirt, my thoughts are small and slow inside the ocean of my mind, like the forget-me-nots blooming in the backyard. So, for today’s friday fun–what is your favorite [...]
friday fun: visit a new place
Posted in friday fun on May 14th, 2010
Yesterday, the kids and I went to our town’s fire station. Our town has an all-volunteer fire department, and one firefighter generously gave us almost an hour of his time to open up all their trucks, show us their equipment and answer our questions. But, we wouldn’t have been there if I hadn’t called first [...]
friday fun: learn a name
Posted in friday fun on Apr 23rd, 2010
Spring is a fickle season around here, so we grab whatever chance we get to get out into the warm sunshine. A couple days ago the kids and I went out for a walk, our trusty National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England in hand (specifically, the Baron’s hand). We picked dandelions; admired daffodils [...]
friday fun: dream journaling
Posted in friday fun on Apr 9th, 2010
Dream journaling is that staple of creativity-enhancing courses that I’ve always skipped in the past. Honestly, my dreams are just not as interesting or coherent as the stories I come up with when awake. They largely involve me neglecting to study or show up for classes and thereby failing the Super Important Exam That Determines [...]
friday fun: coloring
Posted in friday fun on Mar 26th, 2010
Coloring is often dismissed as boring busywork or a creativity-killer (and when it’s forced on a child, I agree it can be so). That said, my children will often want to color of their own volition. I find coloring to be soothing, allowing my hands to work, pencils and markers gliding across the page, while [...]
friday fun: going outside
Posted in friday fun on Mar 19th, 2010
It’s warm, sunny and GORGEOUS out here. My Friday Fun was taking the kids to the park after lunch. The last time we were there (before all the snow and cold weather), Baron was not yet walking. It was so much fun to see him crunching through gravel and clambering over the wooden structures to [...]
friday fun: names
Posted in friday fun on Mar 12th, 2010
Ah, names. Sometimes characters come to you with names neatly affixed; other times you have to sweat and curse and cudgel your brains and the dictionary, trying to pin down that elusive Perfect Name. When I’m in the position of having to come up with a name, the first thing I do is to look [...]