Creative breakthroughs happen when we perceive what lies beyond our ordinary ways of looking. Writing a fairy tale offers that much-needed shift in perception, opening…
“Most of us typically associate metaphor with the flowery language that poets use or with things that are made up: ‘That’s just a metaphor.’ In…
Yesterday was a rough day. My elderly 19-year-old dog peed AND pooped in my car. 🙁 In a fit of exasperation–having too much to do,…
There was a particular moment in my teaching career when I asked a room full of graduate students to imagine a world beyond what they…
Throughout the world’s literature, certain metaphors of transformation appear time and time again, reflecting the universal human experience of growth, awakening, and renewal. These metaphors…
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