A guest post at SheWrites' member Rebecca Rasmussen's blog The Bird Sisters. Her beautiful tale of rural Wisconsin has me missing home.



The Spaces in Between: Creative Fodder in Daily Life

by Rose Deniz (Find Rose at http://rosedeniz.blogspot.com)



Creativity happens between the pages of a notebook, or… Continue

Every day, from my Twitter stream to my blog reader, there’s a controversial topic that captures my attention. Poised on the edge of typing in a heated response or writing a blog post in reaction, my surety wavers. I’m at a precipice, knowing that if I chose to go further, I commit publicly to an idea or a belief that is part of a larger mosaic of my online identity.



I acknowledge that my words could leave a trail of anger and… Continue

Yesterday SheWrites writer Judith van Praag of Hope Filled Jars asked me if I had artwork hiding anywhere that needed to be seen. Her post about a drawing from her… Continue

20 women sit around long tables pushed together in a corner of a café in Istanbul on a Saturday morning. The clink of coffee cups, the murmur of orders being placed. I pace around a little bit, preparing myself physically and mentally to talk about creativity to this group of professional women that I have been a part of since 2007.



The painter… Continue

For as long as I can remember, I have thought in color. I envision the calendar year, for example, as a line drawing shaped like a dissected pie, each month represented by a wedge of color. Cheerful spring and summer months are aqua and pink, fall colors green and yellow, and winter ashen and purple. Colors have a particular sound and pitch. I grid what I see, make visual lists that hang like objects in space.



The… Continue