All Blog Posts Tagged 'Gilbert' (7)

Notes on being creative

What does it mean to be creative?

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary describes creativity as:

The power to create by bringing something into existence; to produce through imaginative skill; to make or bring into existence something new.

Young children are perhaps the best examples of this. The first years of their small lives are composed of one creative expression after another. They are natural innovators – everything is new and unexplored.

As a… Continue

Added by Kristen on January 29, 2011 at 6:52pm — 1 Comment

Eat,Pray,Love ~ Elizabeth Gilbert (Books that have inspired, challenged and changed me for the better after reading them.)

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Added by Kim Koning on January 8, 2011 at 4:55am — No Comments

On the Nightstand

I’ve been doing a lot of reading this summer. I made a conscious decision at the beginning of summer that I was going to watch less TV and do more reading. I’ve got a ton of shows on TiVo and, surprisingly, I don’t even care if I don’t catch up on them. BUT, I am really enjoying reading again. I have been devouring books like they were bon bons and spending lots of time curled up on the sofa with a glass of iced grape kool-aide and my faithful kitty cat, Scooby Doo. (aka Gabriella Pussycat… the… Continue

Added by Lois Houston on July 27, 2010 at 12:18pm — No Comments

Elizabeth Gilbert Makes Me Want To Jump For Joy!

Watch this and you will see exactly what I'm talking about.… Continue

Added by Nicole Easterwood on June 11, 2010 at 9:54pm — No Comments

ReadThis/Center for Fiction to raise books for NYC kids in need: Elizabeth Gilbert, Jamaica Kincaid, Cecily von Ziegesar

This coming Saturday, April 10, 2010, ReadThis partners with the Center for Fiction to throw a book drive event for 11 public schools and youth groups in NYC (including three public all-girl high schools). She Writes members have helped ReadThis in the past, and we hope you can help now too.

There are three ways to spread your love of reading to NYC kids:

- BRING YOUR GENTLY USED OR NEW BOOKS (Pre-K THROUGH GRADE 12) to the Center for Fiction, 17 East 47th Street 11:00… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Mitchell on April 5, 2010 at 10:16am — No Comments

Families Gone AWOL

I started my morning with a cup of coffee and reading Allison Gilbert’s well considered article, Parenting Without Parents: How to be a parent without your own. It’s an interesting article and it raised questions for me. For starters, I wondered how hard it had been to find a photograph of a typical, nuclear family of four, cheerfully… Continue

Added by Fiona McColl on December 5, 2009 at 10:09pm — No Comments