Cultivating Positive Adaptations in 2022
by Michele Berger Last September during a trip to visit family members, I used Uber to send a driver to pick me up at the Detroit airport. Calling Uber (or Lyft), for most people, is now a routine experience. We ...
Remembering Maya Angelou and Celebrating Creative Late Bloomers
by Michele Berger It’s hard to believe that we lost the amazing Dr. Maya Angelou seven years ago. Dr. Angelou was a teacher, writer, healer and lover of life until the very end. I discovered her work in college and performed ...
Give Your Inner Critic a New Job
by Michele T. Berger Inner critics can sabotage our creative work. More than a decade ago, I began to study how and why inner critics become unwanted residents in our psyches. Inner critics are the sharp-tongued internal voices that often ...
Does Your Creative Life Need a Tune Up? Part 2
“Desire for an idea is like bait. You’re fishing, and you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in those ideas.” David Lynch by Michele T. ...
Does Your Creative Life Need a Spring Cleaning? Part 1
by Michele Berger Wow, we’re now in the second quarter of the year! Can you believe it? It seems like only yesterday when we were writing down resolutions for our creative lives in 2021. Have some of those commitments and ...