Life Glistens Beauty: Seeking Light Amid Darkness
By Chris Dunmire
While many people were celebrating beauty, love, and passion on Valentine's Day last month, February 14, 2008, was the date of yet another college campus massacre in our country. This time, for me, it was not buffered by distance states away. This tragedy took place in Dekalb, Illinois, a nearby college town close to where I live — the home to Northern Illinois University (NIU). Five students were killed. We have been a state of mourning ever since. More »
Displays of Tree-mendous Growth
By Chris Dunmire
In late 2004 my ally in creativity, Heather Blakey (Soul Food Cafe), mentored me through my first full-fledged Internet interview about my work with the Creativity Portal Web site.
This inaugural interview wasn't just a simple Q & A either — it was a supreme display of creative-interview-question-technique, which shouldn't come to any surprise if you've visited Heather's Web site and are familiar with her work, her many years as a writing teacher, and the online strides she's making for the education field. Now combine this with her natural creative gifts and Aussie-suaveness in the land down under and you'll have more insight into her questions like this one: More »
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