Innovation on my Mind

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after growing up."  ~ Pablo Picasso I'm in the process...

Summer has sprung in Chicago, and despite ongoing bizarro weather, we are reawakened as outdoor people again, and when I'm finished with...

"I've discovered that my best teachers were my mistakes." ~Philippe Petit Listen to his NPR Interview here.

"A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms....Candor is the key to...

Ah, another new year and with it renewed opportunities to embrace our creative selves, personally and professionally. I wanted to share som...

As we tumble through a darkening December in Chicago, I'm thinking one more time of my recent Eastern European trip both to remember su...

I like to talk about the good ways our culture is changing--looking for positive signs pointing to a more innovative, sustainable, loving fu...

100 years ago, my Bubba--my father's mother--was a young girl living in a small Polish village called Kosow Lacki, a couple hours' h...

Try to pronounce this lovely village town in southern Poland "Bardzo mi miwo," I say to Babcha upon arrival. We'd been wea...

Well, hello there, Summer. Thanks for finally bursting through the cool Chicago spring and offering a bit more space and light and heat.  I ...