Frugal Poet's Guide to Life

I had never heard of purple carrots until I visited a site based in the UK called the Carrot Museum . These carrots are purple on the outsid...

Suppose you run into an old friend. I mean someone whom you haven't seen for five, 10, 15 or more years. Where do you begin? Beyond fill...

Both my husband, Carlos, and I have had strong exposure to dance and are big fans of a variety of dance -- whether classical, popular, triba...

It's hard to imagine that such a peaceful, reflective New Year's Day started with gunfire in the alley at midnight. But that's l...

Your brain receives signals from 200,000 temperature sensors and more than 500,000 touch detectors. According to artist Leonardo da Vinci, m...

During my two-week sojourn earlier this year in the Culinary Suite of The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, ...

A sense of taste, like any other sense, can be developed. According to "The How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci Workbook" by Micha...

I'm continuing the series on developing the five senses, based on "The How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci Workbook" by Michae...

To continue this mini-series on the five senses, which is both inspired and adapted from the book "The How to Think Like Leonardo da Vi...

The best writing employs the use of the five senses to explore metaphor, to show instead of just tell. In the book, "The How to Think L...

More journal notes written during my stay at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, October 2006: I caught a t...

I recently visited the unusual and local Korean ginseng restaurant for lunch, located on Lawrence Avenue east of Elston on the northwest sid...

Journaling is an important element on any scrapbook page, but there's no right or wrong way to tell your story. There is only your way! ...

More journal notes written during my stay at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas: Yesterday I met a tall, th...

Some journal notes from my stay last month in the culinary suite at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow: Took the spice/herb inventory. ...

Some journal notes/letter from my culinary suite stay at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, last month: Spen...

I was among the fortunate 50 this year to have experienced and utterly enjoyed a writer's residency at the Writers' Colony at Dairy ...

As Alanis Morissette sings, "What if God was one of us?" I recently attended an interfaith church service in which the leader ask...

For journaling, or any other creative pursuit, the busy mind needs to be cleared and calmed. This will help allow your own special associati...

My husband Carlos Cumpian and I just got back from a family trip to Texas which included the two of us making presentations and staying at t...