We moved into our house about six years ago. It was a “fixer-upper” – structurally sound with a great layout, but hadn’t been updated since the 70’s. The walls were covered with textured, old-school wallpaper; the orange and brown tile in the entryway brought Woodstock-style flashbacks; the fluorescent lights in the bathroom provided motel-like ambiance. […]
What Will You Do When Your House Burns Down?
We live fairly close to a major street, so we hear fire engines, ambulances and other sirens pretty often. We’ve gotten used to them, so we generally don’t even hear them. Unless they stop. That means something is happening close by, because the siren stopped close by. So we go out on our patio to […]
Why Kids Are Creative, and How They Lose It As Adults
Yesterday, during a corporate seminar, I drew a black dot on a flip chart. I asked the group, “What did I just draw?” “A dot,” they said. “Anything else?” I asked. “A black dot.” Over the years, I’ve probably done that exercise 300 times. With any group of adults, I always get the same answer: […]